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PRIVATE  AND  CONFIDENTIAL. 


DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY 


OF  THE 


Amerioae"  Committee  on  Revision. 


PREPARED   BY   ORDER   OF   THE   COMMITTEE 
FOR   THE    USE    OF   THE   MEMBERS. 


NEW  YORK. 

1885. 


TABLE  OF  CONTENTS. 


INTRODUCTORY. 

PAGE. 

Historical  Sketch  of  the  English  Committee  on  Revision,     .    .      3 


PART   FIRST. 
Organization  of  the  American  Committee,      ........     20 

PART  SECOND, 

Correspondence  of  the  American   Committee  with  the  English 

Companies, 81 

PART  THIRD. 

Correspondence  with   the  University   Presses   of   Oxford    and 

Cambridge,       03 

PART  FOURTH. 
Sundry  Actions  of  the  American  Committee, 131 

PART  FIFTH 
Memorial  Papers, 147 

PART  SIXTH. 

Report  of  the  Committee  on  Finance, 159 

List  of  Donors  and  Subscribers, 163-186 


Sntiotructori). 


HISTORICAL   SKETCH 

OF   THE 

ENGLISH   COMMITTEE   ON   REVISION. 


[We  p7'esent,  hy  way  of  introduction ,  the  folloicing  "Authoritative  Exposition  of 
the  History  and  Purpose  of  Bevision,"  which  appeared  in  the  London  "  Times" 
(weekly  edition),  May  20,  1881.] 

THE  REVISION  OF  THE  AUTHORISED  VERSION  OF  THE 
NEW   TESTAMENT.* 


Ojst  a  December  day,  346  years  ago,  the  members  of  the  Upper  House 
of  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury  were  engaged  on  the  same  subject 
which  will  tliis  day  come  before  that  ancient  body — the  faithful  ren- 
dering of  the  Holy  Scriptures  into  the  vulgar  tongue.  They  then 
unanimously  agreed  that  the  King  should  vouchsafe  to  decree  that 
the  Scriptures  should  be  translated  "  by  some  honest  and  learned 
men  to  be  nominated  by  the  King,  and  to  be  delivered  to  the  people 
according  to  their  learning."  As  we  know,  no  immediate  results  fol- 
lowed this  very  laudable  resolution.  The  King,  however,  two  years 
afterwards,  made  a  proclamation  in  which,  while  he  stoutly  forbade 
the  public  reading  of  the  Scriptures  in  English,  he  did,  nevertheless, 
graciously  allow  "  such  as  can  and  will  read  in  the  English  tongue  " 
to  do  so  *' quietly  and  reverently,"  and  ''by  themselves  secretly,  at 
all  times  and  places  convenient  for  their  own  instruction."  The 
Archbishop,  too,  appears  to  have  done  his  best.  Cranmer  is  said  to 
have  sent  portions  of  Tyndale's  Testament  to  several  bishops  to  be 
reviewed  and  considered,  and  it  is  said  that  all  returned  their  revis- 
ions. But  there  the  matter  ended.  The  subject,  indeed,  was  revived 
in  1542,  but  in  a  reactionary  spirit,  and  in  the  sequel  with  an  equally 
unproductive  result. 

The  ConYocation  of  Canterbury  of  our  own  day  have,  however, 
been  more  fortunate.     They  have  not  only  suggested  that  a  faithful 

*  "  The  New  Testament  of  Our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,"  translated  out 
of  the  Greek  ;  being  the  Version  set  forth  a.d.  1611,  compared  with  ancient 
authorities,  and  revised  A  D.  1881.  Printed  for  the  Universities  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge.     Oxford:  1881. 


4  IIISTOEIOAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

rendering  of  the  Scriptures  should  be  undertaken,  but,  by  means 
of  members  of  tlieir  own  body  and  co-optated  scholars  and  di- 
vines, they  have  completed  one  portion  of  the  work,  and  to-day  will 
publicly  receive  it.  The  Eevised  Version  of  the  New  Testament  will 
be  presented  this  morning  to  both  Houses  of  Convocation. 

Before  we  make  any  comments  on  the  work  itself  we  may,  perhaps 
not  unprofitably,  give  our  readers  some  general  account  of  the  origin 
of  this  really  great  undertaking,  and  briefly  specify  the  manner  in 
which  the  work  has  been  done.  Our  columns  for  the  last  eleven  years 
have  contained  short  notices  of  the  meetings  that  have  been  held  by 
the  Companies,  and  of  the  silent  progress  of  the  work.  We  may 
now  give  the  histoiy  of  that  progress,  and  also  mention  the  various 
circumstances  connected  with  the  early  history  of  that  portion  of  the 
work  that  has  now  been  completed. 

To  find  the  true  origin  of  this  undertaking  we  must  look  back  about 
twenty-five  years.  The  year  1856  was  marked  by  several  distinct  move- 
ments in  favor  of  a  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version,  and  by  one 
particularly,  on  which,  as  a  sort  of  first  step  in  the  now  completed 
work,  it  may  be  desirable  to  speak  a  little  in  detail.  The  subject  was 
alluded  to  both  in  Convocation  and  in  Parliament.  On  February  1, 
1856,  the  late  Canon  Selwyn,  who  had  long  been  deeply  interested  in 
the  subject,  gave  notice  in  the  Southern  Convocation  of  a  resolution 
in  Avhich  Convocation  was  to  pray  the  Sovereign  to  appoint  a  Royal 
Commission  for  receiving  and  suggesting  amendments  in  the  Author- 
ised Version  of  the  Bible.  The  same  course  was  recommended  in 
Parliament  by  Mr.  Heywood,  one  of  the  members  for  North  Lanca- 
shire ;  but  in  both  cases  the  result  Avas  the  same.  Neither  the  cleri- 
cal nor  the  lay  mind  was  prepared  for  such  a  leap  in  the  dark 
as  the  appointment  of  a  commission  to  modify  the  venerable  ver- 
sion that  has  so  long  maintained  its  sui)remacy.  Sir  George  Grey 
more  blandly,  and  Archdeacon  Denison  more  trenchantly,  disposed  of 
the  Royal  Commission,  and,  as  far  as  any  public  action  went,  no  steps 
were  taken,  though  there  were  few  probably,  either  in  Convocation  or 
Parliament,  who  did  not  feel  that  the  subject  could  not  long  be  post- 
poned. 

Private  effort,  however,  was  much  more  successful.  The  Rev. 
Ernest  Hawkins,  then  secretary  of  the  Society  for  the  Propagation  of 
the  Gospel,  was  so  deeply  impressed  Avith  the  importance  of  making 
some  organized  effort  that  he  determined  to  try  and  gather  together 
a  small  body  of  scholars  that  should  undertake  the  revision  of  a  por- 
tion of  the  New  Testament,  and  that  should  show  by  actual  results 
not  only  that  the  Avork  needed  to  be  done,  but  that  it  could  be  done, 
and    that,   too,  on    safe    and    conservative    principles.     After  many 


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efforts  he  succeeded  in  gaining  tlie  support  a,nd  co-operation  of  a  few 
scholars  who  were  known,  either  by  their  works  or  by  general  repu- 
tation, to  bo  interested  in  the  study  of  the  New  Testament.  He 
drew  together,  in  the  summer  of  1856,  the  Eev.  Henry  Alford,  after- 
wards Dean  of  Canterbury  ;  Rev.  John  Barrow,  D.D.,  Principal  of 
St.  Edmund  Hall ;  Rev.  C.  J.  Ellicott,  now  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and 
Bristol;  Rev.  W.  H.  [G.]  Humphry,  Vicar  of  St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields  ; 
and  Eev.  G.  Moberly,  D.C.L.,  then  Head-Master  of  Winchester 
College  and  now  Bishop  of  Salisbury.  These  five  scholars  agreed  to 
make  an  attempt  by  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  St. 
John's  Gospel.  They  began  their  work  in  the  autumn,  meeting  reg- 
nlarly  at  the  vicarage  of  St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields,  with  their  gentle 
taskmaster,  Ernest  Hawkins,  acting  frequently  as  their  secretary,  and 
they  concluded  tlie  first  portion  of  their  revision  in  the  course  of  the 
ensuing  year.  The  preface — a  composition  that  will  still  bear  atten- 
tive perusal — was  written  by  Dr.  Moberly,  the  press  arrangements 
Avere  superintended  by  Canon  Hawkins  ;  and  a  thin  volume  in  royal 
octavo,  bearing  the  title  '^  The  Authorised  Version  of  St.  John's 
Gospel,  revised  by  Five  Clergymen,"  appeared  in  March,  1857,  as 
the  first  sample  of  a  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  produced  by 
the  co-operation  of  several  different  minds.  It  was  followed  by  the 
Epistle  to  the  Romans,  the  Epistles  to  the  Corinthians  (the  preface  to 
which  was  written  by  Professor  Ellicott),  and  subsequently  by  the 
Epistles  to  the  Galatians,  Ephesians,  and  Philippians,  by  four  of  the 
number,  Dr.  Barrow  having  then  left  England.  The  work  was  very 
favorably  received  both  in  England  and  America.  It  received  the 
commendation  of  Archbishop  Trench,  and  was  spoken  of  in  America 
by  Mr.  Marsh,  in  his  lectures  on  the  English  language,  as  ''by  far 
the  most  judicious  modern  recension  "  that  was  known  to  him.  It 
passed  throiigh  several  editions,  and,  though  now  almost  forgotten, 
must  certainly  be  considered  as  the  germ  of  the  present  revision.  It 
showed  clearly  two  things — first,  that  a  revision  could  be  made  with- 
out seriously  interfering  with  either  the  diction  or  the  rhythm  of  the 
Authorised  Version  ;  secondly,  that  a  revision,  if  made  at  all,  must 
be  made  by  a  similar  co-operation  of  independent  minds  and  by  cor- 
porate and  collegiate  discussion.  A  third  fiict  also  was  disclosed 
which  had  a  salutary  effect  in  checking  premature  efforts — viz.,  that, 
as  these  revisers  themselves  said,  the  work  was  "  one  of  extreme  diffi- 
culty," and  of  a  difficulty  which  they  believed  was  "  scarcely  capa- 
ble of  being  entirely  surmounted."  And  they  were  right :  the  pres- 
ent revision,  good  in  the  main  as  we  certainly  believe  it  will  be  found 
to  be,  confirms  the  correctness  of  their  experience.  As  we  shall 
hereafter  see,  there  are  difficulties  connected  with  a  conservative  re- 


b  HISTORICAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

vision  of  the  existing  translation  of  the   Greek  Testament  that  are 
practically  insuperable. 

After  this  effort,  which  from  the  very  first  was  felt  to  be  only  pre- 
lusive and  tentative,  the  immediate  interest  in  revision  sensibly  lan- 
guished. There  Avere  those,  however,  who  were  determined  that  the 
efforts  already  made  should  not  become  utterly  fruitless.  As  year 
by  year  went  onward,  every  change  in  public  opinion  was  closely 
Avatched  by  those  who  had  taken  part  in  the  revision  just  mentioned, 
and  especially  by  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol  and  Dean 
Alford.  It  was  thought  in  18G9  that  many  things  pointed  to  a  re- 
vival in  the  interest  felt  in  revision.  The  Bishop  and  Dean  fre(piently 
conferred  on  the  subject,  consulted  all  those  who  were  in  any  degree 
likely  to  forward  the  undertaking,  and  at  length  obtained  the  hearty 
aid  and  support  of  Bishop  Wilberforce.  The  Bishop  entered  into 
the  movement  with  real  interest,  and,  as  the  sequel  proved,  materi- 
ally contributed  to  its  finally  receiving  a  definite  and  authoritative 
sanction.  The  real  difficulty  was  how  to  break  ground.  It  was  urged 
by  those  most  interested  that  precedent  seemed  in  favor  of  a  Eoyal 
Commission.  In  the  revision  of  1611  the  King  was  the  sole  actor; 
and,  in  the  case  of  the  only  other  Bible  that  rests  on  any  really  valid 
authority,  the  Great  Bible,  the  king's  vicegerent,  Lord  Cromwell, 
has  always  been  deemed  to  ha\'e  been  the  real  mover,  and  tlie  one  to 
Avhom  the  sole  editor,  Coverdale,  Avas  entirely  responsible.  It  Avas  also 
not  forgotten  tliat,  in  tlie  tAvo  abortive  attempts  in  Parliament  and 
Convocation  Avhich  have  been  already  referred  to,  the  proposal  to  pro- 
ceed by  Avay  of  a  Eoyal  Commission  Avas  not  in  itself  objected  to. 
There  Avas,  further,  this  very  important  consideration,  that  the  ex- 
treme difficulties  connected  Avith  the  choice  of  those  avIio  Avere  to 
undertake  tlie  revision  Avould  be  much  diminished  in  the  case  of  a 
Royal  designation.  Those  not  chosen  Avould  be  more  likely  to  accept 
the  decision,  and  in  the  sequel  to  prove  more  impartial  and  tolerant 
critics.  The  spretie  injuria  for mcc,  as  the  case  of  Hugh  ]?roughton 
in  reference  to  the  Authorised  Version  very  distinctly  shows,  and  as 
the  revision  of  1881  will  also  find  out  to  its  cost,  is  a  very  serious 
element  in  the  early  criticisms  that  are  passed  upon  a  work  done  by 
a  necessarily  selected  few  out  of  a  larger  and  hardly  less  competent 
body.  For  these  reasons  it  Avas  deemed  desirable  that  an  address  to 
the  Crown  should  be  moved  for  in  the  House  of  Lords,  and  in  the 
following  terms:  ''That  a  humble  address  be  presented  to  Her 
Majesty  praying  Her  Majesty  to  appoint  a  Eoyal  Commission  to  re- 
vise the  Authorised  Version  in  all  those  passages  Avhere  clear  and  plain 
errors,  whether  in  tlie  Greek  text  originally  adopted  by  the  transla- 
tors,  or  in    the   traiishition   made  from    the   same,  shall,  on  due   in- 


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vestigiition,  be  found  to  exist."  Before,  however,  so  responsible  a 
step  was  taken,  careful  iuquir}^  was  made  liow  far  such  a  resolution 
would  obtain  the  support  of  those  in  authority.  It  was  found  that 
support  could  not  be  promised.  It  was  pointed  out  that  the  choice 
of  the  future  revisers  would  involve  the  greatest  possible  difficulties  ; 
that  a  Commission,  really  to  carry  weight,  must  be  very  inclusive  ; 
and  that  botli  its  size  and  the  necessarily  heterogeneous  nature  of  its 
elements  would  involve  difficulties  in  the  execution  of  the  work,  and 
still  more  in  the  final  reception  of  it,  that  were  judged  to  be  too  great 
to  justify  the  experiment.  The  advice,  frankly  and  considerately 
given,  was  acted  upon,  and  the  plan  of  a  Eoyal  Commission  was  at 
once  given  np. 

It  Avas  obvious  that  the  only  other  authoritative  body  before  which 
the  subject  could  be  brought  was  Convocation.  It  was,  indeed, 
feared  that  if  Convocation  undertook  the  Avork  it  would  not  unnat- 
urally choose  the  revisers  mainly  out  of  its  own  members,  and  that 
thus,  however  well  the  work  might  be  done,  the  results  would  never 
secure  a  really  national  acceptance.  Still,  there  was  no  choice  left. 
If  Convocation  were  not  applied  to,  it  was  clear  the  work  would  have 
to  be  postponed  till  a  Koyal  Commission  might  seem  more  attainable  ; 
and  this,  Avith  the  rapid  movement  of  modern  thouglit,  and  the  neces- 
sity for  the  inclusion  of  very  heterogeneous  elements,  Avould  evidently 
become  year  by  year  a  more  hopeless  anticipation.  So  it  Avas  finally 
resolved  to  bring  the  subject  before  Convocation,  and  to  place  that 
confidence  in  the  Avisdom  of  the  venerable  body  which  the  sequel 
shoAved  Avas  not  placed  there  in  vain. 

All  was  then  arranged,  and  on  February  10,  1870,  the  then  Bishop 
of  Winchester  moved,  and  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol 
seconded,  the  following  resolution  : 

"  That  a  committee  of  both  Houses  be  appointed,  with  power  to  confer  with 
any  committee  that  may  be  appointed  by  the  Convocation  of  the  Noitliern  Prov- 
ince, to  report  upon  the  desirableness  of  a  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of 
the  New  Testament,  whether  by  marginal  notes  or  otherwise,  in  all  those  pas- 
sage? where  plain  and  clear  errors,  whether  in  the  Greek  text  origiually  adopted 
by  the  translators,  or  in  the  translatiou  made  from  the  same,  shall  on  due  investi- 
gation be  found  to  exist." 

The  resolution  was  afterwards  extended,  on  the  motion  of  the 
Bishop  of  LlandafF,  seconded  by  the  Bishop  of  St.  David's  (Dr.  Thirl- 
Avall),  to  the  Old  Testament ;  the  necessary  Avords  Avere  inserted  ;  the 
practically  nnanimous  assent  of  the  House  Avas  given  to  the  amended 
resolution,  and  a  committee  appointed.  The  committee  consisted  of 
the  Bishops  of  Winchester  (Dr.  Wilberforce),  Gloucester  and  Bristol, 
St.  David's,    Llandaff,  Ely  (Dr.    Browne),   Lincoln,   Bath  and  Wells, 


8  HISTORICAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

and  Salisbury.  This  resolution  was  communicated  at  once  to  the 
Lower  House,  and  there  assented  to  very  readily.  It  was  moved  by 
Canon  Selwyn,  and  seconded  by  Dr.  Jebb,  that  the  Convocations  of 
Armagh  and  Dublin  slionld  be  consulted,  as  avcU  as  the  Convocation 
of  York,  but  this  addition  seems  afterwards  to  have  fallen  through. 
The  following  committee  of  the  Lower  House  was  tlien  appointed  : 
The  Prolocutor  (Dr.  Bickersteth),  the  Deans  of  Canterbury  (Dr. 
Alford),  Westminster  and  Lincoln  (Dr.  Jeremie)  ;  the  Archdeacons 
of  Bedford  (Mr.  Eose),  Exeter  (Mr.  Freeman),  and  Rochester  ;  Chan- 
cellor Massingberd  ;  Canons  Blakesley,  How,  Selwyn,  tSwainson,  and 
Woodgate ;  Dr.  Kay,  Dr.  Jebb,  and  ]V[r.  De  Winton. 

The  subject  was  discussed  shortly  afterwards  by  the  Convocation 
of  York,  but,  unfortunately,  owing  to  completely  exaggerated  fears 
as  to  the  nature  of  the  proposal,  the  Northern  Convocation  declined 
to  co-operate. 

The  Joint  Committee  of  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury,  formed  of 
the  two  lists  just  specified,  met  March  24,  1870,  and  drew  up  their 
report  in  the  form  of  the  following  resolutions  : 

"  1.  That  it  is  desirable  tliat  a  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Holy 
Scriptures  be  undertaken. 

"  3.  That  the  revision  be  so  conducted  as  to  comprise  both  marginal  renderings 
and  such  emendations  as  it  may  be  found  necessary  to  insert  in  the  text  of  the 
Authorised  Version. 

"  3.  That  in  the  above  resobitions  we  do  not  contemplate  any  new  translation 
of  the  Bible,  or  any  alteration  of  the  language,  except  where  in  the  judgment  of 
the  most  competent  scholars  such  change  is  necessary. 

"  4.  That  in  such  necessary  changes  the  style  of  the  language  employed  in  the 
existing  version  be  closely  followed. 

"  5.  That  it  is  desirable  that  Convocation  should  nominate  a  body  of  its  own 
members  to  undertake  the  work  of  revision,  who  shall  be  at  liberty  to  invite  the 
co-operation  of  any  eminent  for  scholarship,  to  whatever  nation  or  religious  body 
they  may  belong." 

The  report  was  presented  May  3,  and  the  following  resolution 
adopted  : 

"  That  a  committee  be  now  appointed  to  consider  and  report  to  Convocation  a 
scheme  of  revision  on  the  principles  laid  down  in  the  report  now  adopted. 
That  the  Bishops  of  Winchester,  St.  David's,  Llandaff,  Gloucester  and  Bristol, 
Salisbury,  Ely,  Lincoln,  and  Bath  and  Wells,  be  members  of  the  committee. 
That  the  committee  be  empowered  to  invite  the  co-operation  of  those  whom  they 
may  judge  fit  from  their  Biblical  scholarsliip  to  aid  them  m  their  work." 

This  resolution  was  communicated  to  the  Lower  House.  After  one 
day  of  discussion,  and  some  consideration  of  details  on  the  following 
day,  the  report  of  the  large  Joint  Committee  was  adopted,  and  the  fol- 
lowing members  of  the  Lower  House  appointed  to  co-operate  with  the 
Bishops  above  mentioned  in  carrying  ont  the  work  :  the  Prolocutor, 


ENGLISH    COMMITTEE    ON    REVISION,  9 

the  Deans  of  Canterbury  and  Westminster,  the  Archdeacon  of  Red- 
ford,  Canons  Selwyn  and  Blakesley,  Dr.  Jebb,  and  Dr.  Kay. 

This  second  or,  so  to  speak,  executive,  committee  tlien  seriously 
took  the  work  in  hand.  They  first  met  May  25,  divided  themselves 
into  two  bodies,  or,  as  they  were  afterwards  called,  Companies,  tlie 
one  for  the  Old  Testament,  the  other  for  the  'New,  and  proceeded  to 
the  difiQcult  and  delicate  task  of  choosing  colleagues,  and  of -framing 
general  and  special  rules  for  the  carrying  on  of  the  work.  The 
labors  of  the  Committee  were  lightened  by  the  fact  that  those  origi- 
nally most  interested  in  the  cause  had  already  carefully  collected  the 
names  of  scholars  who  were  judged  to  be  most  likely  to  aid  the  under- 
taking, and,  when  the  Committee  met,  had  a  sufficiently  full  list  to 
present  to  it.  The  general  and  special  rules  had  also  been  prepared 
beforehand  in  draft  by  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol,  and 
were  accepted  with  but  slight  modifications. 

The  names  of  those  invited  at  the  above  meeting,  and  at  a  short 
subsequent  meeting  on  July  5,  to  become  members  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment Company  were  as  follow  :  Rev.  Dr.  W.  L.  Alexander,  Mr. 
Bensly,  Professor  Chenery,  Rev.  Canon  Cook,  Rev.  Professor  A.  B. 
Davidson,  Rev.  Dr.  B.  Davies,  Rev.  Dr.  Douglas,  Professor  Fairbairn, 
Rev.  F.  Field,  Rev.  J.  D.  Geden,  Rev.  Dr.  Ginsburg,  Rev.  Dr.  Gotch, 
Ven.  Archdeacon  Harrison,  Rev.  Professor  Leathes,  Rev.  Professor 
M'Gill,  Rev.  Canon  Payne  Smith,  Rev.  Professor  J.  H.  Perowne,  Rev. 
Professor  Plumptre,  Rev.  Canon  Pasoy,  Rev.  Dr.  Weir,  Dr.  Wright 
(British  Museum),  and  Mr.  W.  A.  Wright  (Cambridge). 

The  names  of  those  invited  at  the  meetings  of  May  25  and  July  5 
to  become  members  of  the  New  Testament  Company  were  as  follow  : 
The  Archbishop  of  Dublin,  the  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews,  Rev.  Dr. 
Angus,  Rev.  Dr.  David  Brown,  Rev.  F.  J.  A.  llort,  Rev.  Prebendary 
Humphry,  Rev.  Canon  Kennedy,  Ven.  Archdeacon  Lee,  Rev.  Dr. 
Lightfoot,  Rev.  Professor  Milligan,  Rev.  Professor  Moulton,  Rev.  Dr. 
Newman,  Rev.  l^fessor  Newth,  Rev.  Dr.  Roberts,  Rev.  G,  Vance 
Smith,  Rev.  Dr.  Scott  (Master  of  Balliol  College),  Rev.  Dr.  Scriv- 
ener, Rev.  Dr.  Thompson  (Master  of  Trinity  College,  Cambridge), 
Rev.  Dr.  Tregclles,  Rev.  Dr.  Vaughan  and  Rev.  Canon  Westcott. 

Of  this  long  list  of  names  some  declined  to  take  the  position 
offered  to  them,  though  in  every  case  with  a  courteous  and  friendly 
recognition  of  the  proffered  honor.  Among  these  were  Canons  Cook 
and  Pusey,  Dr.  Thompson  and  Dr.  Newman.  The  Bishop  of  Lin- 
coln and  Dr.  Jebb  also  soon  afterwards  resigned  their  places  on  the 
Old  Testament  Company.  Of  the  New  Testament  Company  (with 
which  Ave  are  now  more  immediately  concerned),  it  maybe  here  men- 
tioned that  four  were  removed  by  death  previous  to  the  completion  of 


10  HISTORICAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

the  work— viz.,  Dean  Alford,  Dr.  Tregelles,  Bishop  Wilberforcc  and 
Dr.  Eadic.  As  Dr.  Tregelles  was  never  able  to  attend,  and  Bishop 
Wilberforce  only  attended  once,  their  places  were  not  filled  np. 
The  place  of  Dean  Alford  was  supplied  by  Dean  Merivale,  who, 
after  attending  for  a  short  time,  resigned,  and  was  succeeded  by 
Professor  Pahner,  now  Archdeacon  of  Oxford.  The  place  of  Dr. 
Eadie  was  not  filled  np,  as  his  deatli  took  pUice  at  a  time  when 
much  of  the  work  was  done.  Tlic  number  of  the  working  members 
of  the  New  Testament  Company  was  thus  for  the  greater  portion  of 
the  time  twenty-four,  and  so  continued  to  the  close  of  the  work. 

Thefij'st  meeting  of  the  IS'ew  Testament  Company  took  place  on  June 
32,  1870,  under  the  presidency  of  the  Bishop  of  GU:»ucester  and  Bristol, 
who  held  the  position  of  chairman  uninterrnptedly  to  the  end  of  the 
ten  years  and  a  half  over  Avhich  the  labors  of  the  revision  extended. 
The  titular  chairman.  Bishop  Wilberforce,  attended  once  for  about  a 
couple  of  hours  ;  but  it  became,  even  in  tluit  time,  apparent  to  the 
Company,  and  perhaps  was  so  to  the  Bislio^o  himself,  that  a  little 
lighter  hand  and  looser  rein  were  required  to  guide  the  Company 
pleasantly  through  the  intricacies  of  criticism  and  scholarship  in 
Avhich  they  were  almost  hourly  finding  themselves  involved.  The 
Bishop,  however,  remained  a  kind  friend  to  the  movement,  wliich 
his  own  eloquence  had  so  largely  assisted,  and  was  interested  in  it  to 
the  time  of  his  lamented  death. 

During  the  remainder  of  the  year  tlie  work  went  quietly  onward. 
The  New  Testament  Company  found  an  able  and  accurate  secretary 
in  the  Rev.  J.  Troutbeck,  one  of  the  Minor  Canons  of  Westminster, 
and  soon  became  thoroughly  organized  and  habituated  to  their  com- 
plicated labors.  In  the  second  year  of  the  work  some  difficulties  that 
beset  them  were  completely  removed.  The  Delegates  of  the  Oxford 
University  Press  and  the  Syndics  of  tlie  Cambridge  University  Press 
entered  into  a  liberal  arrangement  Avith  the  two  Companies  by  which 
funds  were  regularly  forthcoming  for  all  their  expenses.  It  may  be 
remembei'ed  that  the  revisers  of  IGll  were  by  no  means  so  fortunate, 
and  that  the  way  in  which  their  expenses  Avere  met  during  the  greater 
l^eriod  of  their  labors  was  very  far  from  sntisfactory. 

The  year  that  followed  was  marked  l)y  an  event  of  great  importance 
to  the  cause  of  revision — the  formation  in  America  of  two  Committees  * 
to  co-operate  with  the  two  English  Com}ianies.  Into  the  details  of  this 
movement  in  America,  all  of  which  arc  full  of  interest,  our  space  will 
not  now  allow  us  to  enter.  In  this  more  genci'al  narrative  it  may  be 
enough  to  say  that  on  July  7,  1870,  it  was  moved  in  the  Lower  House  of 
Convocation  by  the  present  Prolocutor  (Lord  Alwyne  Compton)  that 

[*One  committee,  divided  into  two  companies. — Ed.] 


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the  Uj)per  House  should  be  requested  to  instruct  the  Committee  of 
Convocation  ''to  invite  the  co-operation  of  some  American  divines." 
This  was  at  once  assented  to  by  the  Upper  House.  It  Avas,  we  believe, 
afterwards  unofficially  agreed  that  Bishop  Wilberforce  and  the  Dean  of 
Westminster  should  undertake  to  act  for  the  Committee  in  opening- 
communications — the  Bishop  Avith  the  Episcopal  Church,  the  Dean 
with  the  leading  members  of  other  communions.  The  result  of 
this  was  that  towards  the  close  of  1871  two  Committees  were  formed 
in  America  to  communicate  with  the  two  English  Companies  on  the 
basis  of  the  rules  that  had  been  already  laid  down  for  the  revisers  in 
this  country.  Very  soon  afterwards  portions  of  the  first  revision 
that  had  by  tbat  time  been  finished  in  England  Avere  transmitted  to 
America,  and  a  system  of  communication  fully  established.  The 
Avork  then  Avent  on  continuously  in  both  countries,  the  English 
Companies  revising,  and  the  American  Committees  revicAving  Avhat 
Avas  thus  revised,  and  returning  their  suggestions,  both  as  regards  the 
first  and  the  second  revision,  to  the  two  Companies  at  Westminster. 
The  volume  that  Avill  be  published  this  day  will  contain  a  list  of 
readings  and  renderings  iuAvhich  the  American  divines  ultimately  dif- 
fer from  the  revisers  in  this  country.  When  this  list  is  fully  con- 
sidered, the  general  reader  will,  Ave  tliink,  be  surprised  to  find  that 
the  differences  are  really  of  such  little  moment,  and  in  very  many 
cases  Avill  probably  wonder  that  tlie  American  divines  thought  it 
Avorth  Avhile  thus  to  formally  record  their  dissent. 

Such  is  a  brief  sketch  of  the  history  of  the  movement.  It  may  now 
be  convenient  to  mention  the  manner  in  Avhich  the  actual  Avork  of 
revision  Avas  carried  on  by  the  Company.  This  Avill  be  more  easily 
understood  if  avo  specify  the  principal  rules  Avhicli  were  laid  down  at 
the  commencement  of  the  undertaking,  and  to  Avhich  allusion  has 
already  been  made  in  the  earlier  part  of  this  narrative.  These  rules 
Avere  as  follow  : 

"1.  To  introduce  as  few  alterations  as  possible  in  the  text  of  the  Authorised 
Version  consistently  with  faithfulness. 

"2.  To  limit,  as  far  as  possible,  the  expression  of  such  alterations  to  the  lan- 
guage of  the  Authorised  and  earlier  English,  versions. 

"  3.  Eacli  Company  to  go  twice  over  the  portion  to  Ije  revised,  once  provision- 
ally, the  second  time  finally,  and  on  principles  of  voting  as  hereinafter  is  pro- 
vided. 

"4.  That  the  text  to  be  adopted  be  that  for  which  the  evidence  is  decidedly 
preponderating  ;  and  that  wlienthe  text  so  adopted  differs  from  that  from  which 
the  Authorised  Version  was  made,  the  alteration  be  indicated  in  the  margin. 

"5.  To  make  or  retain  no  change  in  the  text  on  the  second  final  revision  by 
each  Company  except  two-thirds  of  those  present  approve  of  the  same,  but  on  the 
first  revision  to  decide  by  simple  majorities. 

"  G.  In    every  case  of  proposed   alteration  that   may  have  given   jise   to  dis 


12  niSTOHICAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

cussioD,  to  defer  the  voting  thereupon  till  the  nest  meeting,  whensoever  the 
same  shall  be  required  by  one-third  of  those  present  at  the  meeting,  sucli  intended 
vote  to  be  announced  in  the  notice  for  the  nest  meeting. 

"7.  To  revise  the  headings  of  chapters,  pages,  paragraphs,  italics,  and 
punctuation. 

"  8.  To  refer,  on  the  part  of  each  Company,  when  considered  desirable,  to 
divines,  scholars,  and  literary  men,  whether  at  home  or  abroad,  for  their 
opinions." 

In  conformity  with  these  rules  the  whole  of  the  Authorised 
Version  of  the  New  Testament  underwent  a,  first  revision.  This 
extended  over  six  years.  The  results  were  arrived  at,  in  accordance 
with  rule  5,  by  simple  majorities,  the  Authorised  Version  having  no 
further  advantage  than  this — that  it  was  considered  to  be  the  form 
before  the  Company,  and  that  in  accordance  with  the  system  of 
voting  in  the  House  of  Lords  it  was  maintained  if  the  votes  Avere 
equal.  This  first  revision  was  transmitted,  portion  by  portion,  to 
America,  and  returned  Avith  the  suggestions  of  the  American  Com- 
mittee, their  rules  (as  we  have  already  implied)  being  the  same  as 
those  laid  down  for  the  English  Company. 

On  the  completion  of  the  first  revision,  the  whole  was  gone  over 
again,  with  the  advantage  of  the  criticisms  and  suggestions  of  the 
American  Committee,  but  the  voting  was  under  changed  principles. 
The  Authorised  Version  was  placed  in  a  position  of  distinct  advantage, 
and  if  raised  in  competition  with  the  first  revision,  Avhether  English 
or  American,  could  only  be  prevented  from  returning  by  two-thirds 
voting  against  it.  Where  there  Avas  a  difference  of  reading  in  tlie 
Greek,  then  the  rule  of  tAvo-thirds  Avas  not  considered  applicable,  and 
the  question  Avas  decided  by  a  simple  majority.  Many  renderings 
that  had  been  removed  from  the  Authorised  Version  Avere  thus 
brought  back  again,  though  by  no  means  to  so  large  an  extent  as 
might  have  been  beforehand  supposed.  The  Company  had  been 
silently  accumulating  for  itself  a  rough  code  of  principles,  and  com- 
monly remained  true  to  them,  even  Avhen  the  Authorised  Version  Avas 
raised  in  opposition  to  the  ncAvly  formed  revision.  Close  and  con- 
tinued inspection  had  also  served  to  reveal  that,  admirable  and 
thoroughly  idiomatic  as  the  Authorised  Version  might  be,  it  Avas  fre- 
quently very  far  from  consistent :  nay,  even  that  it  studiously  affected 
a  variety  of  diction  Avhen  there  Avas  nothing  to  justify  it  in  the 
original.  These  and  other  considerations  led  to  the  maintenance  of 
the  first  revision  to  a  greater  extent  than  at  first  seemed  probable. 

The  second  revision,  like  the  first,  was  communicated,  portion  by 
portion,  to  the  American  Committee,  and  by  them  returned  Avith 
criticisms  and  suggestions.  This,  combined  Avith  the  obvious  neces- 
sity of  endeavoring  to  preserve  a  harmony  of  rendering,  as  far  as  it 


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was  reasonable  and  possible,  led  to  a  further  review  of  the  whole 
woriv,  under,  however,  this  common-sense  condition,  that  the  now 
twice-revised  version  was  not  to  be  changed  except  by  a  majority  of 
two-thirds.  The  Revised  Version,  in  fact,  then  had  the  prerogative 
which  had  belonged  to  the  Authorised  Version  at  an  earlier  stage 
of  the  woi'k. 

Such  in  general  outline  was  the  course  of  tlie  procedure.  Fuller 
details  will  be  found  in  the  Preface,  but  the  above  fairly  represents 
the  broad  principles  on  which  the  Eevised  Version  was  constructed, 
and  will  probably  suggest  some  confidence  in  the  results.  The 
Authorised  Version  had  that  supremacy  assigned  to  it  which  the 
spirit  of  the  rules  absolutely  required,  and  which,  it  may  be  said,  the 
revisers  Avere  always  ready  most  loyally  to  concede  to  it.  The 
occasions,  however,  would  of  course  be  many  in  which  the  grave 
question  of  what  constitutes  ''faithfulness"  (Rule  1)  would  be  some- 
what differently  interpreted  by  the  individual  members  of  a  large 
company.  A  merely  tentative  revision,  after  which  much  would  still 
remain  to  be  done  at  a  future  time,  would  have  been  a  grave  mistake. 
This  has  certainly  not  been  the  case  with  the  present  work.  Revision 
has  been  carried  out  to  a  ftiir  and  reasonable  extent,  but  not,  as  it 
would  appear,  in  any  degree  beyond  it. 

The  same  remark  applies  in  great  measure  to  the  critical  work  of 
the  Company  in  connection  with  the  Greek  text,  which,  we  are  glad 
to  find,  is  to  be  published  in  a  clear  and  handsome  form  by  the  Uni- 
versity Press  of  Oxford.  The  principle  in  regard  to  textual  criticism, 
it  will  be  observed,  was  prescribed  to  be  that  of  change  only  on  "  de- 
cidedly preponderating  evidence."  But  here,  as  in  the  case  of  faith- 
fulness in  regard  to  the  rendering,  it  is  obvious  that  the  estimate  of 
what  really  constitutes  decidedly  preponderating  evidence  will  be 
widely  different  with  equally  honest  and  impartial  critics.  To  one, 
the  long  array  of  uncial  witnesses,  even  though  it  may  be  almost  cer- 
tain that  the  mass  of  them  were  reproductions  of  some  common 
exemplar,  will  seem  clearly  to  constitute  "  decidedly  preponderating 
evidence."  To  another,  who  may  be  guided  by  the  well-known  canon 
non  numerare  sed  appendere,  the  concurrence  of  a  comparatively  small 
number  of  ancient  authorities,  representing  independent  textual  tra- 
ditions, and  found  by* experience  to  be  most  worthy  of  credit,  may  be 
regarded,  and  justly  regarded,  as  distinctly  evidence  of  the  nature 
referred  to  in  the  rule.  It  seems  clear  that  this  last  was  the  prevail- 
ing interpretation  given  to  the  rule  by  the  majority  of  the  Company, 
so  that,  both  in  textual  criticism  as  well  as  rendering,  a  decided  line 
has  been  taken,  and  a  standard  maintained  happily  beyond  that  of  a 
mere  provisional  and  temporary  revision. 


14  HISTORICAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

There  seems  reason  to  believe  that  a  close  examination  will  show 
this  to  have  been  very  consistently  maintained,  and  that  the  evil  of  a 
text  sometimes  np  to  a  good  critical  standard,  and  sometimes  decidedly 
below  it,  has  been  snccessfnlly  avoided.  It  might  have  been  supposed 
from  the  action  of  the  rule  requiring  two-thirds  to  reverse  a  reading 
supposed  to  underlie  the  Authorised  Version,  and,  still  more,  from 
the  necessarily  fluctuating  nature  of  the  Company  from  month  to 
month,  and  sometimes  even  from  day  to  day,  that  such  a  standard 
could  hardly  have  been  maintained.  It  must,  however,  bo  remem- 
bered that  loyalty  to  principles  already  felt  out  would  always  tend  to 
repress  any  disturbing  use  of  the  rule  ;  and,  further,  that,  in  spite  of 
fluctuations,  there  was  a  stable  element  in  the  Company  which  greatly 
helped  in  keeping  up  its  traditions  and  principles.  The  punctuality 
of  attendance  is,  indeed,  one  of  the  most  striking  features  of  this  un- 
dertaking ;  and  when  the  length  of  the  time  is  considered,  and  the 
distances  at  which  many  of  the  members  resided  from  the  place  of 
meeting,  probably  unexampled  in  the  history  of  committees.  Out  of 
the  407  meetings  the  chairman  attended  405  times.  Some  others 
reached  also  a  very  high  standard  ;  and,  of  those  who  attended  more 
than  three-fourths  of  the  whole  series  of  meetings,  the  number 
amounted  fully  to  one-third  of  the  whole  Company.  The  existence 
of  this  comparatively  stable  element  has  tended  to  preserve  harmony 
and  consistency,  and  will  be  found  to  have  been  an  important  element 
in  the  success  which  we  believe  has  been  achieved  by  the  Avork. 

A  very  noticeable  feature  in  the  volume  is  the  large  amount  of 
marginal  notes.  Of  these  some  are  short  notes  bearing  on  differences 
of  reading  in  the  Greek  text  adopted  by  the  revisers,  but  the  greater 
number  are  short  notes  specifying  differences  of  rendering,  which, 
either  as  having  been  preferred  by  a  minority  of  the  Company  or  as 
having  been  advocated  by  scholars  of  eminence,  it  seemed  ])roper  to 
specify.  In  the  case  of  the  Authorised  Version  it  has  often  been  said 
that  the  marginal  note  presents  the  rendering  wliich  was  probably 
deemed  by  the  revisers  of  tliat  day  to  be  really  the  most  accurate. 
However  this  may  be,  the  remark  will  not  apply  to  the  Kevised  Ver- 
sion. The  text  adopted  represents  that  rendering  which  was  deemed 
by  at  least  one-third  of  the  Company  then  present  to  be  correct  in  the 
case  of  maintaining  a  rendering  of  the  Authorised  Version,  and  of  at 
least  two-thirds  in  departing  from  it.  The  text,  therefore,  as  is 
obviously  most  desirable,  records  plainly  the  opinion  either  of  the 
actual  clear  majority  of  those  who  considered  and  discussed  the  ren- 
dering, or  of  that  portion  of  them  which  constituted  a  legal  majority. 
We  have  thus  in  the  Revised  Version  a  clear  expression  of  an  opinion, 
and  are  left  in  no  uncertainty,  as  is  sometimes  the  case  in  the  Au- 


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tliorised  Version,  a,s  to  tlie  actnal  meaning  that  is  deemed  to  be  con- 
veyed by  the  original  Greek. 

The  hist  portion  of  tlie  work  of  the  revisers  is  the  Preface,  a  care- 
fally  constructed  and  elaborate  document,  in  Avhich  the  principles  on 
whicli  the  revision  has  been  made  are  set  fortli  witli  considerable  ful- 
ness of  detail.  This  i,mportant  introduction  to  the  study  of  the 
volume  was  thus  constructed  :  it  was  prepared  in  draft  by  the  chair- 
man several  montlis  before  the  conclusion  of  the  work.  A  copy  was 
sent  round  to  each  member  inviting  remarks  and  corrections.  The 
copies  so  sent  out  were  returned  to  the  chairman,  and  formed  the  basis 
of  a  second  and  revised  edition  of  tlie  original  draft.  Tlie  document 
so  amended  was  finally  considered  by  the  whole  body  collectively,  and, 
after  careful  revision,  accepted  as  the  anthoritative  description  of 
their  work.  It  is  to  be  hoped,  in  justice  to  the  revision,  that  no 
formal  criticisms  will  be  passed  on  the  labors  of  the  Company  nntil 
this  careful  and  explicit  document  has  been  thoroughly  mastered.  If 
it  teaches  anything  it  will  teach  this — first,  that  the  revision  of  a 
translation  such  as  the  Authorised  Version  is  a  work  of  almost  in- 
superable difficulty  ;  secondly,  that  criticism,  to  be  just,  must  not 
content  itself  with  merely  sporadic  approval  or  disapproval  of  the 
renderings  adopted,  but  must  first  intelligently  master  all  the  circum- 
stances, conditions,  and  modifying  details  of  the  highly  complicated 
undertaking. 

What  is  stated  by  the  revisers  on  the  subject  of  alteratioris  rendered 
necessary  hy  consequence  is  well  worthy  of  the  most  careful  attention. 
From  the  single  example  that  is  adduced  it  will  readily  be  inferred 
what  strong  reasons  there  may  be  in  the  background  for  changes 
which  a  mere  off-hand  critic  might  condemn  with  some  passing  show 
of  plausibility.  A  work  executed  with  the  obvious  care  and  devotion 
to  the  subject  whicli  every  paragraph  of  the  revision  abundantly  dis- 
plays may,  with  justice,  deprecate  a  criticism  that  has  not  taken  equal 
pains  to  arrive  at  the  true  aspects  of  the  passage  or  the  circumstances 
under  consideration.  That  there  will  be,  especially  at  first,  much 
criticism  of  a  very  precipitate  nature  is  a  matter  of  the  most  perfect 
certainty,  but  it  is  equally  certain  that  criticism  of  this  nature  will 
not  affect  in  the  slightest  degree  the  ultimate  and  probably  slowly 
formed  estimate  of  the  present  revision. 

What  that  estimate  Avill  finally  be  it  would  be  now  utterly  prema- 
ture even  to  attempt  to  forecast.  Our  belief  is  that  in  the  main  it 
will  be  hxvorable,  and  the  belief  is  founded  upon  the  unquestionable 
fact  that  a  body  of  competent  scholars  has  bestowed  extraordinary 
pains,  for  a  lengthened  period  of  time,  on  the  revision  alike  of  the 
text  and  the  current  rendering  of  the  original.     It  seems  contrary  to 


IG  HISTORICAL    SKETCH    OF   THE 

experience  that  such  carefully  organized  efforts  should  ultimately  fail. 
It  is  quite  probable  that  here  and  there  throughout  the  volume  par- 
ticular renderings  will  be  objected  to  on  reasons  that  will  be  ultimately 
considered  valid  ;  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  where  such  should  be  the 
case  nothing  will  prevent  the  revisers  from  reconsidering  their  former 
decisions.  This,  as  we  know,  took  place  in  the  case  of  the  Bishops' 
Bible  of  15G8,  and  may  properly  take  place,  if  found  necessary,  in  the 
Convocation  Testament  of  1881.  What  is  desired  on  all  hands  is, 
not  only  a  technically  correct  rendering,  but  one  also  that  by  its  dic- 
tion, rhythm,  and  loyal  adherence,  where  possible,  to  the  version 
now  in  use  should  commend  itself  to  the  religious  judgment  of  Eng- 
lish-speaking people  throughout  the  Avorld. 

[Then  follows  an  editorial  criticism  of  the  Revised  New  Testament.] 


CONVOCATION  OF  CANTEEBURY. 

May  17,  1881. 

On  Tuesday  both  Houses  of  the  Convocation  of  the  Province  of 
Canterbury  met  at  Westminster  for  the  despatch  of  business. 

THE  UPPER  HOUSE. 

The  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  presided  over  the  Upper  House, 
which  met  in  the  Board-room  of  Queen  Anne's  Bounty  Office.  There 
were  present  the  Bishop  of  London,  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and 
Bristol,  the  Bishop  of  St.  Alban's,  the  Bishop  of  Hereford,  the 
Bishop  of  Exeter,  the  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph,  the  Bishop  of  Truro,  the 
Bishoj)  of  Lichfield,  the  Bishop  of  Rochester,  the  Bishop  of  St. 
David's,  the  Bishop  of  Chichester,  the  Bishop  of  Ely,  the  Bishop  of 
Bath  and  Wells,  the  Bishop  of  Bangor,  and  the  Bishop  of  Llandaif. 

The  Archbishop  read  a  message,  which  he  had  ordered  to  be  sent 
to  the  Lower  House,  to  the  effect  that  his  Grace  the  President  desired 
the  attendance  of  the  Prolocutor  and  such  members  of  the  Lower 
House  as  could  conveniently  attend  to  receive  the  report  on  tiie 
revision  of  the  Scriptures. 

In  obedience  to  this  message  the  Prolocutor  (Lord  Alwyne  Compton) 
and  a  very  large  number  of  members  of  the  Lower  House  attended. 

The  Archbishop,  addressing  them,  said, — 

"  I  have  requested  the  ])resence  of  the  Prolocutor  and  sucli  of  the  members  of 
the  Lower  House  who  might  wish  to  take  part  in  this  solemnity,  as  I  regard  it  as 
a  matter  of  great  importance  for  you  to  hear  now  what  are  the  results  of  the 
deliberations  of  the  body  who  for  many  years  have  been  engaged  upon  the 
solemn  and  onerous  task  of  a  revision  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  in   the  English 


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tongue.  The  first  report — that  upon  the  New  Testament — is  to  be  presented  to- 
day. We  have  good  reason  for  believing  and  lioping  that  at  no  far  distant  date 
we  sliall  have  the  second  report^that  upon  the  Old  Testament ;  but  to-day  you 
will  have  only  the  first,  and  I  have  to  call  vipon  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and 
Bristol,  who  is  the  chairman  of  the  Joint  Committee  on  the  Kevision,  to  lay  the 
report  before  you." 

The  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol  presented  the  following 
report  : — 

"  The  Joint  Committee  of  tlie  two  Houses  of  Convocation,  appointed  May  5. 
1870,  for  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  beg 
leave  to  report  that,  with  the  assistance  of  the  scholars  and  divines  whose 
co-operation  they  were  authorised  to  invite,  they  have  completed  one  portion  of 
their  labors, — viz.,  the  New  Testament, — and  now  present  the  volume  containing 
the  same  to  his  Grace  in  Convocation." 

His  Lordship  then  expressed  his  deep  thankfulness  for  the  mercies  vouchsafed 
to  the  Committee  during  the  long  time  in  which  they  had  been  engaged  in  the 
solemn  and  important  task  committed  to  their  care  ;  and  he  expressed  also  his 
hope  that  the  blessing  of  God  would  further  rest  upon  those  labors,  and  that  the 
Holy  Scriptures  would  more  and  more  be  brought  to  the  hearts  and  homes  of 
every  English-speaking  people. 

The  Archbishop,  addressing  the  Lower  House,  said  that  he  had  thought  the 
occasion  should  not  be  allowed  to  pass  without  his  expressing,  on  behalf  of  this 
Convocation,  the  deep  thanks  of  both  Houses  to  the  Committee  who  had  under- 
taken and  carried  out  this  work.  Of  course,  this  work  had  not  yet  been  examined, 
and  the  Houses  had  yet  to  examine  the  revision  in  detail  ;  but,  nevertheless,  the 
House  would  be  thankful  to  the  Committee  for  their  labors.     (Hear,  hear.) 

The  Lower  House  then  retired  to  their  own  chamber. 

The  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol  then  rose  and  said, — 

"I  have  now  the  honor  and  responsibility  of  placing  before  your  lordships  a 
portion  of  the  important  work  assigned  by  Convocation  eleven  years  ago  to  a 
joint  committee  of  the  two  Houses  of  this  province.  I  now  lay  upon  your  lord- 
ships' table  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  New  Testament  as 
completed  by  the  Company  of  which  I  have  the  honor  to  be  the  chairman.  In 
placing  before  you  such  a  work,  so  intimately  connected  with  the  past,  and  so 
closely  bound  up  with  the  noblest  labors  of  former  centuries,  it  is  not  possible  for 
me  to  leave  unnoticed  in  such  a  speech  as  the  present  the  various  public  efforts 
of  which  this  is  the  last  that,  for  well-nigh  350  years,  have  had  for  their  object 
the  setting  forth,  in  the  tongue  wherein  we  were  born,  of  the  holy  and  inspired 
words  of  the  written  Book  of  Life.  I  must  therefore  ask  your  lordships  to 
bear  with  me  if  I  briefly  allude  to  the  various  stages  in  the  progress  of  the 
great  work,  and  especially  to  the  share  which  this  House  of  Convocation  has  had 
in  aiding  and  furthering  the  labors  of  the  translators  and  revisers  of  the  past. 
That  share  has  not  been  a  large  one.  Convocation,  till  this  last  revision,  has 
never  taken  any  prominent  part  in  reference  to  the  successive  translations  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures.  Nay,  at  times,  I  fear,  it  has  shown  itself  hostile  and  reaction- 
ary. Still  it  has  its  history  in  reference  to  the  English  Bible  ;  and  now  to  that 
history,  as  well  as  to  the  other  movements  that  have  publicly  been  made,  I  will 


18  HISTOEICAL    SKETCH    OF   THE 

at  once  very  briefly  advert.  We  must  look  back  350  years.  Tyndale's  version 
of  the  New  Testament  had  come  over  to  this  kingdom,  and  had  been  about  four 
years  in  private  but  wide-spread  circulation.  The  souls  of  men  were  profoundly 
stirred,  and  the  desire  to  have  at  length  the  word  of  God  in  our  own  mother- 
tongue  was  vivid  and  universal.  The  first  public  action  on  the  part  of  the  Church 
was,  I  grieve  to  say,  to  condemn  that  version  which  was  the  bone  and  sinew  of  all 
that  have  followed  it,  Tyndale's  translation  of  the  New  Testament.  At  a  Coun- 
cil held  at  Westminster,  under  Archbishop  Warham,  in  May,  1530,  that  version 
was  condemned,  but  we  may  be  thankful  also  to  remember  that  it  was  agreed 
that  the  Archbishop  should  send  out  a  document  to  be  read  by  all  preachers,  in 
which  the  King's  promise  that  the  Scriptures  should  be  translated  in  English 
■was  fully  set  forth.  Four  eventful  years  then  passed  away.  The  King's  suprem- 
acy was  acknowledged  the  next  year,  and  the  first  steps  taken  for  emancipat- 
ing this  country  from  the  tyranny  of  Rome.  In  1534  the  subject  of  the  transla- 
tion of  the  Scriptures  was  renewed,  and  on  the  19th  of  December  in  that  year 
this  Upper  House  of  Convocation  agreed  that  the  Archbishop  should,  in  the 
name  of  the  members  of  the  House,  '  make  instance  with  the  King  that  Holy 
Scripture  should  be  translated  into  the  vulgar  tongue.'  Cranmer  at  once  set 
about  the  work  :  he  appears  to  have  sent  portions  of  Tyndale's  Testament  to 
several  bishops  for  review  and  revision.  The  bishops,  it  would  seem,  all  re- 
turned their  revisions  ;  but,  from  some  cause  or  other,  it  miscarried.  The  next 
year  (1535)  Coverdale's  ti-anslation,  dedicated  to  the  King,  stole  into  this  country, 
and  was  allowed  to  circulate,  though  not  formally  licensed  till  1537.  The  prayer 
of  Convocation  was  thus  still  before  the  country.  It  was  not  directly  granted, 
but  it  appears  to  have  had  this  indirect  effect,  that,  not  more  than  three  years 
afterwards,  the  royal  license  was  given  to  the  second  edition  of  Coverdale's 
Bible,  and  to  Rogers'  or  Matthews'  Bible,  and  that  two  years  later,  in  153!),  the 
Great  Bible  was  published,  of  which  Coverdale  was  the  sole  editor.  This  was 
an  event  of  great  importance,  and  may  be  regarded,  in  a  certain  sense,  as  the 
practical  answer  to  the  prayer  of  Convocation  three  years  before.  Convocation, 
however,  I  regret  to  say,  was  by  no  means  satisfied  with  the  answer,  as  very 
soon  afterwards,  in  February,  1542,  it  was  decided  by  this  House  that  the  Great 
Bible  should  be  revised  according  to  the  Bible  then  in  current  use,  or,  in  other 
words,  to  the  Vulgate.  Two  committees  were  appointed.  The  Old  Testament 
Committee  was  presided  over  by  the  Archbishop  of  York  ;  the  New  Testament 
Committee  by  the  Bishop  of  Durham.  The  matter  was  subsequently  re- 
ferred by  the  King  to  the  Universities,  but  in  the  sequel  it  happily  fell 
through.  A  generation  then  passed  away.  The  Great  Bible  had  meanwhile 
been  revised,  though  in  a  very  different  manner  to  what  the  Convocation 
of  1543  had  hoped  for  and  had  attempted.  It  had  now  passed,  by  the  process  of 
a  revision,  performed  by  several  hands,  into  the  Bishops'  Bible.  The  Genevan 
version  had  also  been  pa'olished,  and  was  obtaining  so  wide  a  circulation  that  in 
1571  Convocation  made  a  special  enactment  in  favor  of  what  it  deemed  the  more 
orthodox  volume — the  Bishops'  Bible.  Every  Bishop  was  to  have  a  copy  in  his 
palace.  Cathedrals,  and,  as  far  as  possible,  parish  churches,  were  to  provide 
themselves  with  this  last  authoritative  revision.  Somewhere  about  this  time 
there  appears  to  have  been  some  thought  of  a  movement  in  Parliament,  as  an  un- 
dated paper  has  been  found  among  the  archives  of  the  House  of  Lords,  contain- 
ing the  sketch  of  a  bill  for  'reducing  diversities  of  Bibles  now  extant  in  the 
English  tongue  to  one  settled  vulgar  translated  from  the  original.'  Another 
generation  then  passed  away,  during  the  whole  of  which  three  versions  were  in 


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practically  competitive  circulation — the  Great  Bible,  the  Genevan  version,  and 
the  Bishops'  Bible.  In  Convocation  there  seems  to  have  been  some  little  reaction 
in  favor  of  the  Great  Bible,  for  ia  May,  1G04,  Canon  80  was  passed,  by  which  it 
was  provided  that  every  church-warden  wa,  to  provide  for  each  parish  a  Bible 
'  amplisslmi  voluminis,'  or,  as  it  would  certainly  seem  to  imply,  the  Great  Bible 
of  more  than  sixty  years  before.  But  a  great  and  signal  change  was  now  very 
near  at  hand.  In  February  of  the  same  year  (1604)  a  passing  remark  of  Dr. 
Reynolds  at  the  Hampton  Court  Conference  led  the  King  seriously  to  take  up  the 
subject  of  a  revision  of  the  existing  translations,  and  before  the  conference  broke 
up  it  appeared  as  one  of  the  points  desired  by  the  King,  and,  in  fact,  carried 
at  his  instigation,  viz.,  '  That  a  translation  be  made  of  the  whole  Bible  as  con- 
sonant as  can  be  to  the  original  Hebrew  and  Greek.'  This  was  the  fundamental 
resolution,  and,  as  we  well  know,  by  the  action  of  the  King  and  some  unknown 
but  most  competent  advisers,  learned  men  were  called  together,  and  the  great 
work  which  we  familiarly  know  by  the  name  of  the  Authorised  Version  was  set 
forth  to  the  Church  and  the  world  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1611.  In  reference 
to  this  version  nothing  was  said  or  done  either  in  Convocation  or  Parliament. 
This  revision  is  to  be  attributed  solely  to  the  King  and  to  the  wise  and 
learned  men  whom  he  was  providentially  able  to  call  together  for  the 
execution  of  this  great  and  time-honored  work.  More  than  a  generation 
then  passed  away,  during  which  the  Authorised  Version  was  steadily  growing 
in  public  favor  and  vindicating  year  by  year  its  distinct  superiority  not 
only  over  the  Bishops'  Bible,  but  over  the  popular  Genevan  Bible.  And  it 
was,  perhaps,  owing  to  this  last  fact  that  we  find  Dr.  Lightfoot  urging,  in  a  ser- 
mon preached  before  the  House  of  Commons  in  August,  1645,  the  desirableness 
of  a  revision  of  the  Scriptures,  and  apparently  with  some  effect  ;  for,  in  1653,  a 
bill  was  actually  introduced  for  a  new  revision.  Some  preparatorv  steps  were 
taken  ;  but  happily  the  Parliament — the  Long  Parliament — was  dissolved,  and 
the  plan  entirely  fell  thi-ough.  For  two  hundred  years  all  desire  for  any  further 
authoritative  revision  had  entirely  died  out.  There  were  revised  portions  of  Holy 
Scripture,  in  this  long  interval,  by  individual  scholars,  but  nothing  that  in  any 
degree  helped  forward  the  present  movement.  At  the  end  of  this  long  period, 
however,  it  was  plain  that  the  desire  for  a  new  revision  had  revived,  and  that  the 
subject  was  beginning  to  take  its  place  among  the  leading  questions  of  the  day. 
In  the  year  1856,  which  might  rightly  be  characterized  as  the  germinal  year  of  the 
present  movement,  Canon  Selwyn  (ever  a  true  and  warm  supporter  of  revision) 
moved  in  Convocation,  and  Mr.  Hey  wood  a  few  months  afterwards  moved  in  Par- 
liament, for  the  appointment  of  a  Royal  Commission  to  consider  the  whole  ques- 
tion. The  public  movements  failed  ;  but  a  private  movement  made  by  five  clergy- 
men (one  of  whom  is  the  present  speaker,  and  another  my  right  rev.  brother  the 
Bishop  of  Salisbury)  in  great  measure  succeeded.  The  publication  in  the  follow- 
ing year  (1857)  of  a  revised  version  of  the  Gospel  of  St.  John  by  these  five  clergy- 
men was  generally  admitted  to  have  established  these  two  positions — (1)  that  a 
sober  and  conservative  revision  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  might  in  due  time  very 
hopefully  be  undertaken  ;  (2)  that  when  undertaken  it  would  be,  almost  beyond 
doubt,  on  the  principles  which  this  little  company  of  scholars  had  gradually  and 
experimentally  felt  out.  The  time,  however,  was  not  then  ripe,  though  the  process 
of  maturation  had  commenced.  So  half  a  generation  passed  away.  Fresh  critical 
subsidies  were  accumulating  ;  new  exegetical  works  were  multiplying  ;  and  at 
last  the  time  was  ripe,  and  the  great  movement  with  which  Convocation  has  been 
so  intimately  connected  began  in  February,  1870,  and  shortly  after  assumed  an 


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authoritative  and  practical  form.  lu  that  raontli,  as  your  lordships  well  remem- 
ber, the  late  Bishop  of  Winchester  moved  in  this  House,  and  the  present  .speaker 
seconded,  a  preliminary  resolution,  which  was  accepted  by  both  Houses  practi- 
cally unanimously,  and  acted  upon  in  little  more  than  four  months  afterwards. 
An  executive  committee  was  formed  ;  some  forty  scholars  and  divines  outside  Con- 
vocation were  invited  to  take  part  in  the  work.  Two  Companies  -were  formed, 
the  one  for  the  Old  Testament  and  the  other  for  the  New  Testament,  and  both  at 
once  addressed  themselves  to  their  long  and  responsible  work.  Soon  afterwards 
two  Committees  were  formed  in  America,  and  regular  and  systematic  communi- 
cation establisbed  between  the  scholars  on  this  side  and  the  other  side  of  the 
Atlantic.  The  New  Testament  Company  commenced  its  labors  on  June  22,  1870, 
and  closed  them  on  November  11,  1880,  and  the  result  of  those  labors  is  the  vol- 
ume which  I  have  had  the  honor  and  respdbsibility  of  placing  upon  the  table  of 
this  venerable  House.  And  here  I  might,  not  improperly,  close  this  present 
address  ;  yet,  if  I  rightly  interpret  my  present  duty,  and  perhaps  also  the  wishes 
and  desires  of  your  lordships,  I  ought  not  to  do  so  on  this  somewhat  memorable 
occasion  without  saying  a  few  words  on  the  manner  in  which  the  task  committed 
to  us  has  been  done,  and  also  a  few  words,  but  only  a  few  words,  on  the  nature 
and  characteristics  of  the  revision.  In  regard  of  the  manner  in  which  the  work 
of  revision  was  carried  on,  I  may  remind  your  lordships  that  it  was  in  accordance 
with  rules  which  had  been  laid  down  at  the  commencement  of  the  work.  They 
were  framed  with  due  regard  to  modern  requirements  and  ancient  precedents, 
being  in  many  respects  identical  with  the  rules  prescribed  for  the  revisers  of  1611, 
and  the  rules  which  appear  to  have  been  observed  by  those  who  took  part  in  the 
Bishops'  Bible  fifty  years  before.  These  rules  were  constantly  tested,  and,  I  am 
thankful  to  say  (for  I  was  in  some  measure  responsible  for  them),  proved  efficient 
and  sufficient  to  the  end.  These  rules  it  may,  perhaps,  be  convenient  that  I  should 
read  to  your  lordships,  as  they  set  forth  in  a  succinct  form  the  course  which  was 
to  be  followed  by  the  Companies  in  the  prosecution  of  their  work  : — (1)  To  intro- 
duce as  few  alterations  as  possible  into  the  text  of  the  Authorised  Version  con- 
sistently with  faithfulness.  (2)  To  limit,  as  far  as  possible,  the  expression  of  such 
alterations  to  the  language  of  the  Authorised  and  earlier  English  versions.  (3) 
Eacli  Company  to  go  twice  over  the  portion  to  be  revised,  once  provisionally,  the 
second  time  finally,  and  on  principles  of  voting  as  hereinafier  is  provided.  (4) 
That  the  text  to  be  adopted  be  that  for  which  the  evidence  is  decidedly  prepon- 
derating ;  and  that  when  the  text  so  adopted  differs  from  that  from  which  the 
Authorised  Version  was  made,  the  alteration  be  indicated  in  the  margin.  (5)  To 
make  or  retain  no  change  in  the  text  on  the  second  and  final  revision  by  each 
Company  except  two-thirds  of  those  present  approve  of  the  same,  but  on  the  first 
revision  to  decide  by  simple  majorities.  (C)  In  every  case  of  projjosed  alteration 
that  may  have  given  rise  to  discussion,  to  defer  the  voting  thereupon  till  the  next 
meeting,  whensoever  the  same  shall  be  required  by  one-third  of  those  present  at 
the  meeting,  such  intended  vote  to  be  announced  in  the  notice  for  the  next 
meeting.  (7)  To  revise  the  headings  of  chapters,  pages,  paragraphs,  italics,  and 
punctuation.  (8)  To  refer,  on  the  part  of  each  Company,  when  considered 
desirable,  to  divines,  scholars,  and  literary  men,  whether  at  home  or  abroad, 
for  their  opinions.  Of  these  rules,  one  only  was  found  to  be  superfluous— 
the  rule  which  prescribes  that,  if  re<]uired  by  one- third  of  the  Company,  the 
voting  might  be  deferred  on  any  difficult  and  debated  question  till  the  following 
day.  The  object  was  to  prevent  any  lingering  heut  of  controversy  having  any 
influence  on  the  final  decision,  and  to  insure  a  perfectly  calm  and,  as  far  as  pos- 


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ibie,  unbiased  decision.     The  rule,  however,  was  never  put  in  action.     By  the 
mercy  and  blessing  of  God,  no  occasion  ever  arose  which  made  it  in  any  degree 
necessary.     Amid  ceaseless  differences  of  opinion  and  countless  divisions,  the 
brotherly  feeling  and  harmony  that  prevailed  among  us  remained  unimpaired  to 
the  very  end,   and  rendered  all  such  postponement  of   the  final  expression  of 
opinion  wholly  unnecessary.     All  the  rest  of  these  rules,  as  our  preface  will  show 
more  fully  in  detail,  were  very  carefully  observed.     They  were  felt  by  us  to  pre- 
sent three  broad  principles,  upon  which  I  will  venture  to  make  a  few  observa- 
tions, as  tending  to  illustrate  that  on  which  I  now  am  speaking — the  manner  in 
which  we  have  endeavored  to  execute  our  work.     In  the  first  place,  we  have  felt 
that  what  was  required  of  us,  not  only  in  the  criticism  and  translation,  but  in  all 
the  details  of  the  revision,  was  to  express  a  corporate  and  collective  judgment. 
It  is  this  which  distinguishes  our  work  from  every  other  revision  that  has  pre- 
ceded it.     It  has  been  the  work  of  a  large  body  of  men.  sitting  together,  and 
arriving  at  their  results  after  full  corporate  discussion.     This,  as  we  know,  was 
not  the  case  with  the  Bishops'  Bible.     Our  latest  historian  of  the  English  ver- 
sions of  the  Bible  (Dr.  Eadie)  reminds  us  not  only  that  there  was  no  consultation 
among  the  revisers,  but  even  no  final  supervision.     We  have  no  reason  for  think- 
ing that  it  was  otherwise  with  the  Genevan  Bible,  which,  though  the  work  of 
persons  dwelling  for  a  time  in  the  same  city,  does  not  present  any  traces  of  hav- 
ing been  executed  or  discussed  in  common.     The  first  edition,  indeed,  of  the  New 
Testament  is  known  to  have  been  the  work  of  a  single  hand.     Even  in  our 
Authorised  Version  the  work  of  revision  was  carried  on,  in  the  case  of  the  New 
Testament,  by  two  separate  companies,  that  only  communicated  their  results  to 
each  other,   but  never  discussed  them  In  common.     In   the  final    supervision, 
which,  however,  only  lasted  nine  months  for  the  whole  Bible,  the  discussion  was 
probably  corporate,  but  It  was  only  by  a  small  number,  and,  from  the  very  nature 
of  the  case,  was  probably  more  of   a  merely  harmonising  nature  than  a  revision 
in  the  true  sense  of  the  word.     In  our  case  it  has  been  utterly  different.     Revis- 
ion and  supervision  have  been  carried  through  by  the  whole  Company.     Every 
detail  has  been  submitted  to  It  ;  every  decision  has  emanated  from  it  ;  every 
judgment  rests  solely  upon  its  authority.     The  volume  now  lying  upon  your 
lordships'  table  is  the  result,  in  every  part  and  portion,  of  united  and  corporate 
discussion.     And  If  this  was  our  first  principle,  not  less  strictly  observed  was 
our  second  principle — viz.,  to  express  that  corporate  judgment  with  precision 
and  distinctness.     I  do  not  think  there  will  be  found  in  the  whole  volume  the 
faintest  trace  of  a  rendering  which  would  adjust  itself  to  one  or  other  of  two 
competing  views  of  the  meaning  of  the  original  Greek.     Our  rule  was  invariably 
to  put  in  the  text  the  judgment  of  the  majority,  and  that  of  the  minority  In  the 
margin,  that  majority  and  minority  being  of  the  nature  defined  by  the  rules. 
There  is  thus  nowhere  any  uncertain  sound.     Nor  is  there  any  ground  whatever 
for  supposing,  as  is  sometimes  the  case  in  the  Authorised  Version,  that  the  mar- 
gin Is  the  more  correct  rendering,  which,  for  some  reason  or  the  other,  It  was  not 
deemed  desirable  to  place  In  the  text.     However  It  may  be  with  the  Authorised 
Version,  it  is  certainly  not  so  with  the  Revised.     The  text  expresses  the  render- 
ing or  the  decision  of  the  majority  of  the  Company — that  which  it  deliberately 
preferred  ;  the  margin  expresses  the  view  of  the  minority,  and  is  to  be  so  re- 
garded by  the  reader.     Our  third  principle  was  not  only  to  express  our  corporate 
judgment  with  clearness,  but  to  do  so  only  after  the  fullest  and  most  varied  con- 
sideration.    There  is  not  a  hastily  arrived  at  judgment  to  be  found  In  any  page 
of  the  Revised  Version.     No  precipitate  decision  has  any  place  whatever  In  the 


22  HISTOEICAL    SKETCH    OF    THE 

results  that  are  now  submitted  to  you.  When  I  mention  that  the  work  lias  actu- 
ally gone  through  seven  revisions  I  feel  that  I  am  justified  in  making  the  state- 
ment which  I  have  just  made  to  your  lordships  in  regard  to  the  decisions  arrived 
at  in  tliis  volume.  Yes,  my  lords,  seven  revisions,  all  more  or  less  thorough  and 
complete.  First,  the  whole  of  the  version  committed  to  the  Company  was  revised 
by  it,  and  then  transmitted  to  America.  It  was  then  reviewed  by  the  American 
Committee,  and  returned  back  again  to  England.  It  then  underwent,  in  accord- 
ance with  the  rules,  a  second  revision  in  England,  and  was  again  transmitted  to 
America.  After  these  four  revisions  it  yet  underwent  a  fifth  revision  in  England, 
mainly  with  a  view  of  removing  any  hardness  of  diction,  or  of  remedying  any 
rhythmical  defects  which  might  have  been  introduced  through  the  various 
changes  which  liad  been  imported  in  the  course  of  this  fourfold  revision.  There 
was  yet  a  sixth  and  most  important  revision  in  the  form  of  a  harmonizing  review 
of  the  whole,  thus  far,  completed  work.  A  Greek  concordance  of  the  New 
Testament  was  divided  into  fourteen  parts.  Of  these,  twelve  of  the  members 
most  constant  in  their  attendance  each  took  a  part  (the  chairman  taking  two),  and 
made  themselves  individually  responsible  for  a  close  examination  of  all  the  ren- 
derings of  the  words,  each  in  the  portion  allotted  to  them.  All  varieties  of  ren- 
dering were  thus  brought  up  before  the  Company,  and  wheresoever  necessary  the 
judgment  of  the  collective  body  formally  taken  upon  them.  Thus  there  was  a 
sixth  revision.  And  even,  in  a  certain  sense,  a  seventh  ;  for  it  so  happened  that 
one  of  the  two  portions  taken  by  the  chairman  contained  the  article  and  the  rela- 
tive pronouns.  This  involved  on  the  part  of  the  chairman  a  careful  reading 
through,  line  by  line,  of  the  whole  volume.  This  reading  revealed  several  incon- 
sistencies in  the  use  of  the  English  relative  that  had  escaped  notice,  and  also 
disclosed  a  few  slight  inconsistencies  in  other  words  or  expressions  which  had  in 
some  way  or  other  eluded  the  vigilance  of  the  revisers.  Wlien  I  add  to  this  that 
throughout  all  this  lengthened  process  the  attendance  was  most  remarkable  in 
regard  to  numbers  and  punctuality — the  average  attendance  during  the  whole 
ten  and  a  half  years  being  as  high  as  sixteen  out  of  twenty-four — I  think  I  may 
be  justified  when  I  say  that  the  third  principle  at  which  wo  aimed — the  expres- 
sion of  opinions  only  after  the  fullest  and  most  varied  consideration  — was  thor- 
oughly and  faithfully  observed.  I  now  pass,  in  the  last  place,  to  a  few  remarks 
on  the  nature  and  characteristics  of  the  version  itself,  which  is  now  lying  on  our 
table.  Much  I  need  not  say,  as  the  Preface  which  is  prefixed  to  the  volume  really 
tells  this  with  a  fulness  and  a  detail  that  leave  little  to  be  added  on  the  present  oc- 
casion. Perhaps,  as  before,  it  may  be  best  for  me  to  gather  up  my  remarks  into  the 
form  of  two  or  three  general  comments.  Permit  me,  then,  to  say  that  tliese  three 
characteristics  will  certainly  be  found  on  every  page  of  the  Revised  Version — 
thoroughness,  loyalty  to  the  Authorised  Version,  and  due  recognition  of  the  best 
judgments  of  antiquity.  Our  version  is  certainly  thorough — thorough  both  in 
regard  of  the  text  and  the  rendering.  That  thoroughness,  as  your  lordships 
will  remember  from  the  rules  which  I  but  recently  read  to  you,  was  to  be  reg- 
ulated by  the  principle  of  faithfulness  in  regard  of  the  translation  and  a  due 
regard  to  decidedly  preponderating  evidence  in  the  case  of  the  Greek  text 
which  we  regarded  as  the  basis  of  our  rendering.  Faithfulness  and  decidedly 
preponderating  evidence  are,  of  course,  both  of  them  expressions  which  admit 
of  a  great  variety  of  interpretations,  and,  in  a  numerous  body  like  that  of  the 
New  Testament  Company,  were  certain  to  receive  them.  Without  troubling 
your  lordships  with  any  enumeration  of  these  varying  shades  of  opinion,  it  may 
be  sufficient  to  mention,  as  the  general  result,  that  the  revision  both  of  the  Greek 


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text  and  of  the  Authorised  translation  has  been  thorough  and  up  to  a  full  stand- 
ard of   correction.     And  it  would  have  been  a  great  misfortune  if  it  had  been 
otherwise.  A  timid  revision  that  had  not  the  nerve  to  aim  at  comparative  finality, 
but   was   simply  suggestive   of  a  renewal  of  the  process  when  the  public  mind 
might   be  judged  to  be  again   ready  for  it,  would  have  had  a  very  unsettling 
effect,  and  really  would  have  frustrated  the  very  progress  that  it  contemplated ; 
for    such   a   kind  of    revisiou  would   be  used  as  a  standing  argument  against 
any  revision  at  all.     Moreover,  to  modify  a  high  standard,  in  some  subsequent 
review,  is  a  process  comparatively  easy  ;  but  to  elevate  a  lower  and  tentative 
standard,  in  the  case  of  a  translation  of  the  New  Testament,  would  be  found,  if 
attempted,  a  work  of  such  peculiar  difficulty  that  it  would  be  very  speedily  aban- 
doned.    No  such  misfortune  has  happened  to  the  Revised  Version.    It  represents 
as  full  a  measure  of  correction  as  is  required  by  faithfulness,  fairly  estimated, 
but  nothing  beyond  it.     The  minor  changes  by  which  it  is  marked  are  certainly 
numerous,  but  all  have  only  one  common  object- -the  setting  forth  with  greater 
clearness,  force,  and  freshness  the  language  and  teaching  of  the  inspired  original. 
Eleven  years  ago  I  alarmed  your  lordships  by  the  estimate  which  I  then  formed 
of  the  amount  of  change  that  would  be  needed  ;  and,   I  remember,  I  led  my 
brother  of  Salisbury  to  say  that  my  words  would  frighten  people  from  one  end 
of  the  land  to  the  other.     If  the  estimate  was  deemed  to  be  alarming,  I  fear  I 
may  alarm  your  lordships  still  more  when  I  state  the  actual  results  and  compare 
them  with  what  was  then  only  anticipated.     I  comfort  myself,  however,  with  the 
thought  that   when  you  go  to  the  revision  itself  these  alarms  will  speedily  be 
dissipated.  What  I  stated  as  the  very  lowest  estimate  was  six  changes  for  every 
five  verses,  one  of  these  sis  changes  being  for  critical  and  textual  reasons.  What 
has  actually  taken  place   is  an  average  for  the  Gospels  of  between  eight  and 
nine  changes  in  every  five  verses — somewhere  about  one  and  a  half,  or  three  in 
every  ten  verses,  being  for  critical  changes.     As  might  be  expected,  the  average 
for  the  Epistles  is  still  higher.     It  appears  to  amount  to  about  fifteen  changes  for 
every  five  verses — one  and  a  half  as  before  being  due  to  critical  changes.     I  have 
formed  this  calculation  on  a  rigidly  accurate  examination  of  the  revised  version 
of  the  Sermon  on  the  Mount  and  the  General  Epistle  of  St.  James,  two  con- 
nected portions  of  Holy  Scripture  containing    each  about  the  same  number  of 
verses.     Yet,    with    all  this  thoroughness   of    revision  and    numerically   high 
standard   of  correction,  the   effect  to  the  general  hearer  or   reader   will  really 
hardly  be  perceptible.     This  is  due  to  the  second  characteristic  of  our  version, 
its    persistent   loyalty  to    the   Authorised   translation.      To   any  candid   reader 
nothing   will   be    more    patent   than  this  throughout   the  whole  volume.     Our 
words  in  the  Preface  will  show  the  great  reverence  that  we  have  ever  felt  for 
that  venerable  version,   and  our  practice  on  every  page  will  show  how,  even 
when  words  may  have  been  changed,  our  reverence  has  shown  itself  in  such  a 
careful  assimilation  to  the  tone  and  rhythm  of  that  marvellous  translation  that 
the  actual  amount  of  change  will  scarcely  ever  be  felt  or  recognized.     Some- 
times this  has  been  effected  by  the  choice  of  a  word  of  the  same  rhythmic  quality 
as  that  which  is  displaced  ;  sometimes  by  a  fortunate  inversion ;  sometimes  by 
the  reproduction  of  a  familiar  and  idiomatic  turn  ;   sometimes    by  the  preser- 
vation  of   the    cadence    even   when   more    than  one    of    the  words  which  had 
originally  helped  to  make  it  up  had  become  modified  or  changed.     In  a  word, 
our  care  throughout  has  been,  while  faithfully  carrying  out  revision  whereso- 
ever it  might  seem  needed,   to  make  the  new  work  and  the  old  so  blend  to- 
gether that    the  venerable  aspect  of    the  Authorised  Version  might   never  be 


24  HISTORICAL    SKETCH    OF   THE 

lost,  and  its  fair  proportions  never  sacrificed  to  the  rigidity  of  a  merely  pedantic 
accuracy.  The  third  characteristic  of  the  version — due  recognition  of  the  best 
judgments  of  antiquity — though  not  equally  patent,  will,  I  hope  and  believe, 
rarely  be  looked  for  in  vain.  In  all  more  difficult  passages  we  have  ever  given 
especial  heed  to  the  great  early  versions,  and  to  the  voice,  wherever  it  could 
he  heard  in  the  same  language  as  that  which  we  were  translating,  of  primi- 
tive and  patristic  antiquity.  In  many  of  those  passages,  perhaps,  on  which 
hereafter  we  may  be  most  severely  criticised — as,  for  instance,  in  the  '  deliver 
us  from  the  Evil  One '  of  the  Lord's  Prayer — it  will  be  found  that  we  are  but 
reproducing  that  which  had  always  been  the  interpretation  of  the  best  and 
earliest  writers  of  the  Greek-speaking  Primitive  Church.  We  have  thus  sought 
to  tread  the  old  paths  as  well  as  the  new,  and,  while  never  neglecting  modern  schol- 
arship, have  never  reversed  old  interpretations  without  such  a  clear  amount  of 
contextual  or  linguistic  authority  as  rendered  such  a  reversal  a  matter  of  distinct 
and  indisputable  faithfulness.  But,  ray  lords,  I  must  detain  you  no  longer.  Such, 
in  general  outline,  is  the  Revision  which  I  now  have  the  honor  of  placing  before 
you.  Whatever  may  be  its  faults  and  shortcomings,  it  has  been  done  faithfully, 
and  it  has  been  done  prayerfully.  Its  pages  bear  the  results  of  long-continued 
and  arduous  labors  ;  but  those  labors  would  have  been  as  nothing  if  they  had 
not  Ijeen  hallowed  and  quickened  by  prayer.  Such  is  this  revision  of  1881  ;  not 
unworthy,  I  trust  and  believe,  to  take  its  place  among  the  great  English  versions 
of  the  past ;  not  also  without  the  hope  of  holding  a  place  among  them  of  honor, 
and,  perhajjs,  even  of  pre-eminence.  But  those  things  belong  to  the  future. 
For  the  present,  it  is  enough  that  I  commend  this  volume  to  the  favorable  con- 
sideration of  your  ]ord.ships,  and  ask  for  it  your  fatherly  prayers." 

The  Archbishop,  on  behalf  of  the  House,  recorded  thanks  to  those  members  of 
the  Revision  Committee  who  were  not  appointed  by  Convocation,  and  his  Grace 
also  expressed  his  opinion  that  the  House  was  very  fortunate  in  having  had 
the  advantage  of  the  services  of  a  scholar  such  as  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester 
and  Bristol  to  lake  part  on  belialf  of  the  House  in  this  revision.  (Hear, 
hear.) 

The  Bishop  of  London  expressed  his  hope  that  the  position  this  Revised 
Version  would  take  would  not  be  misunderstood.  He  feared  that  this  position 
had  been  misunderstood.  The  Revised  Version  had  been  spoken  of  as  if  it  would 
at  once  take  the  place  of  the  Authorised  Version.  He  begged  to  remind  the 
House  that  no  one  could  at  present  use  this  Revised  Version.  When  the  whole 
work  was  completed  it  would  go  out  to  the  public  and  would  be  before  the  Church 
for  consideration  ;  it  might  be  years  before  the  proposed  alterations  from  the 
Authorised  Version  had  so  approved  themselves  to  the  Churcii — both  clergy  and 
laity— that  steps  could  be  taken  to  give  authority  for  the  use  of  the  Revised 
Version.  However,  it  must  be  understood  that  the  Revised  Version  could  not 
now  be  used  in  the  churches,  lie  begged  to  express  the  hope  that  there  might 
not  be,  for  the  next  two  or  three  years,  frequent  speaking  and  discussion  by 
young  clergymen,  especially  by  those  who  most  probably  could  not  construe  the 
original,  on  the  proposed  alterations  set  forth.  A  great  deal  of  patient  study 
ought  to  precede  any  attempt  at  criticism  of  the  proposed  alterations,  and  clergy- 
men—young clergymen  especially- who  had  little  knowledge  of  the  original, 
should  be  careful  not  too  readily  to  express  an  opinion  as  to  tlie  superiority  of  the 
one  version  over  the  other.  The  real  jiurpose  and  value  of  the  revision  was  that 
it  laid  before  the  Church  and  the  laity  alil^e  the  opinions  of  ripe  scholars  and  of 


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tlie  ancient  Church,  and  the  result  was  an  exceedingly  valuable  one,  upon  which, 
however,  no  opinion  could  be  given  until  after  full  study  and  with  adequate 
knowledge.  The  House  would  be  thankful  for  the  work  which,  under  the  bleps- 
ing  of  God,  had  thus  been  carried  out — a  work,  however,  which  did  not  supersede 
that  version  of  the  Scriptures  which  all  English-speaking  Christians  had  learnt 
to  esteem  and  love.     (Hear,  hear.) 


OKGANIZATION  OF  THE  AMEKICAN  COMMITTEE. 


ORGANIZATION 

OF 

THE   AMERICAN    COMMITTEE. 

CORRESPO^fDE^fCE   FROM   JULY,    1870,    TO   DECEMBER,    1873. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Angus  to  Dr.  ScliafE.] 

College,  Eegent's  Park,  London,  June  9,  1881. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  enclose  a  copy  of  Dr.  Ellicott's  letter,  as  you  request,  and  a 
copy  of  a  letter  I  sent  to  Dr.  Woolsey  and  others  from  New  York 
early  in  Aug".  1870.  Your  proposed  rules  you  no  doubt  have. 
The  Eeport  to  the  Bishop  and  his  approval  thereof  I  can  hardly 
send  :  on  my  return  I  put  it  all  into  Dean  Stanley's  hands,  who  has 

corresponded  with  you.     The  details  have  great  interest 

It  w.ill  give  us  pleasure  to  see  you  on  our  side  again. 

Yours, 

Joseph  Angus. 


[Letter  of  Bishop  EUicott  to  Rev.  Dr.  Angus.] 
{Copy.) 

Portland  Place,  Loudon,  July  20  [1870J. 
Dear  Dk.  Angus  : 

As  you  do  me  the  favor  of  asking  me,  I  take  the  responsi- 
bility, as  acting  chairman  of  the  New  Testament  Company  of  the 
revision  body,  herewith  to  commend  you  as  one  of  our  most 
trusty  helpers  to  the  scholars  in  the  United  States  who  may  be 
interested  in  the  undertaking.  Perhaps  you  will  kindly  explain 
to  them  how  we  work,  viz.,  round  a  common  table,  and  how  it  is 
thus  difficult  for  us  to  incorporate  our  brethren  across  the  water. 
It  will,  however,  be  very  easy  for  us  to  transmit  our  work  in  its 
provisional  state  to  an  authorised  committee  in  the  United 
States,  and  pay  all  attention  to  the  corrections  they  may  sug- 
gest and  the  observations  they  may  be  pleased  to  offer.  We 
shall  be  very  interested  in  hearing  when  you  come  back  how  you 
may  have  arranged. 

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30  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

Pray  give  my  respectful  compliments  to  auy  scholars  with 
wliom  you  may  confer,  and  believe  me  very  sincerely, 

Yours, 
C.  J.  Gloucester  and  Beistgl. 

[Bishop  Ellicott,  Chairman  of  the  N.  T.  Company.'] 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Angus  ro  American  Scholars. — Sent  out  in  August,  1870.] 

My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  am  not  sure  whether  you  have  seen  the  enclosed  plan  of 
Bible  revision  [the  rules,  etc.,  of  the  English  Company].  The 
method  adopted  of  having  the  work  done  by  each  Companj' 
together  makes  it  impracticable  to  ask  the  co-operation  of 
brethren  in  America  at  the  initial  stage  of  their  proceeding  : 
but  there  is  a  strong  and  general  feeling  among  the  revisers  that 
we  should  get  their  co-operation  to  the  extent  at  least  of  securing 
their  criticisms  and  suggestions  before  our  revision  is  finally 
published.  Could  you  help  in  such  a  work  by  looking  over  the 
revision  as  we  prepare  it,  and  giving  suggestions?  If  a  com- 
mittee of  a  dozen  or  eighteen  were  formed  in  the  States,  we  could 
send  the  copy  of  the  revise  to  each,  and  they  might  meet  and 
agree  on  suggestions.  If  meetings  are  impracticable,  we  might 
still  obtain  individual  judgments;  but  the  plan  of  a  united  judg- 
ment has  obvious  advantages.  The  expense  of  such  meetings 
would  not  be  great:  and  probably  it  might  be  met  by  friends 
interested  in  our  work.  In  England  the  revisers  give  their  time 
and  labor ;  and  we  propose  to  meet  the  expenses  of  printing  and 
travelling  by  an  appeal  to  the  English  public.  Expenses  in 
America  might  be  met  in  a  like  way ;  or  we  might  acid  these 
expenses  to  ours,  and  meet  them  all  out  of  a  common  fund.  I 
had  hoped  to  confer  with  you  on  this  subject  during  the  JST.  Y. 
Alliance  meetings.  They,  however,  are  postponed,  and  I  must 
therefore  trust  largely  to  correspondence.  Bishop  Ellicott  (our 
acting  chairman)  gives  me  an  introduction  and  asks  me  to  obtain 
such  help  as  I  am  now  writing  about. 

Dr.  Schaff  and  Dr.  Conant  agree  to  help  either  individually  or 
in  committee.  When  you  have  thought  the  matter  over,  favor 
me  with  a  reply  addressed  to  the  Alliance  Kooms,  Bible  House, 

New  York. 

Yours  very  sincerely, 

Joseph  Angus. 


AMERICAlSr    BIBLE    REVISIOIS^    COMMITTEE.  31 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Scliaff  to  Dr.  Angus,  President  of  Regent's  Park  Colleo-e, 
London,  and  Member  of  the  Commission  for  tlie  Revision  of  the  English 
Bible.] 

New  York,  Aug.  18, 1870. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Angus  : 

In  compliance  with  your  request,  at  our  recent  interview,-'  I  beg 
leave  to  submit  to  you  and  to  Bishop  Ellicott  the  results  of  my 
thoughts  on  the  important  subject  of  American  co-operation  with 
the  British  Commission  appointed  by  the  Convocation  of  Canter- 
bury, May  6th,  1870,  for  the  Revision  of  the  Authorised  Version 
of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

SUGGESTIONS. 

1.  The  members  of  the  American  Committee  to  be  invited  by 
the  British  Committee  from  the  best  Biblical  scholars  of  the 
leading  evangelical  denominations  of  the  United  States,  with 
power  to  add  to  their  number  and  to  supply  their  vacancies. 

2.  The  American  Committee  to  co-operate  with  the  British  Com- 
mittee on  terms  of  fraternal  equality  and  on  the  basis  of  the  prin- 
ciples and  rules  adopted  by  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury  and 
the  British  Committee. 

3.  The  British  Committee  to  submit  to  the  American  Commit- 
tee, from  time  to  time,  parts  of  theu*  work  as  they  have  passed 
the  first  revision,  and  the  American  Committee  to  submit  their 
suggestions  to  the  British  Committee  for  the  second  revision. 

4.  A  joint  meeting  of  both  Committees  to  be  held,  if  possible, 
in  London  or  New  York,  for  the  final  revision. 

5.  The  expenses  of  the  American  Committee  to  be  met  by  the 
American  friends  of  revision. 

6.  The  following  names  of  American  scholars  are  suggested  as 
being  most  likely  to  secure  the  universal  confidence  of  the 
churches  they  represent  :t 

*  [Dr.  Angus  visited  the  United  States  as  a  delegate  to  the  Sixth  General  Con- 
ference of  the  Ev^angelical  Alliance,  wliicb  was  to  be  held  in  New  York,  Sept., 
1870,  but  was  postponed,  on  account  of  the  Franco-German  war,  to  the  autumn 
of  1873.  He  had  several  personal  interviews  with  Dr.  Schaflf,  and  requested  him 
to  draw  up  apian  of  co-operation  and  a  list  of  revisers,  and  to  address  him  at  Chi- 
cago on  his  Western  journey.  Dr.  Angus  visited  the  United  States  again  in  1873, 
and  met  the  American  revisers  when  they  were  at  work  in  the  Bible  House.] 

f  It  is  expected  that,  in  addition  to  the  names  here  suggested,  the  British  Com- 
mittee will  select  and  invite  some  bishops  and  divines  of  the  Protestant  Episco- 
pal Church  of  the  United  States  to  co-operate  with  the  American  Committee. 
This  list,  therefore,  is  designedly  incomplete. 


32  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

A.  For  the  Old  Testament  Company. 

Prof.  Green,  D.D.,  Theol.  Seminary  at  Princeton,  N.  J.  (Pres- 
byterian). 

Dr.  Conant,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  (Baptist). 

Dr.  Van  Dyck,  Am.  B.  C.  F.  M.,  Beyrut,  Syria,  translator  of  the 
Arabic  Bible. 

Dr.  Whedon,  Ed.  "  Metli.  Quarterly  Review,"  New  York  (Metli.). 

Prof.  Tayler  Lewis,  Union  Col.,  Schenectady,  N.  Y.  (Ref'd). 

Prof.  Day,  D.D.,  Yale  Col.,  New  Haven  (Congregationalist). 

Prof.  Mead,  D.D.,  Andover,  Mass.  (Congregationalist). 

B.  For  the  New  Testament  Comimny. 

President  Woolsey,  Yale  Col.,  New  Haven  (Congregationalist). 

Eev.  Dr.  Washburn,  New  Y^ork  (Episcopalian). 

Prof.  Henry  B.  Smith,  D.D.,  orProf.  "WiUiam  G.  T.  Shedd,  D.D., 
Union  Theol.  Sem.,  N.  Y.  (Presbyterian). 

Prof.  Hackett,  D.D.,  or  Prof.  Kendrick,  D.D.,  Piochester  Theol. 
Sem.,  N.  Y.  (Baptist). 

Prof.  Chas.  Krauth,  D.D.,  Univ.  of  Pa.,  Phila.  (Lutheran). 

Prof.  Charles  Hodge,  D.D.,  Princeton,  N.  J.  (Presbyterian). 

Prof.  Strong,  S.T.D.,  Drew  Sem.,  Madison,  N.  J.  (Methodist). 

Eev.  Dr.  Stowe,  Hartford,  Conn.  (Congregationalist). 

This  hst,  however,  should  be  kept  subject  to  revision  before  a 
formal  appointment  is  made. 

Hoping  that  your  visit  to  this  country  will  result  in  the  com- 
plete success  of  your  mission  in  regard  to  this  important  subject, 

I  am  yours  very  truly, 

Philip  Schaff. 

Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Angus,  now  at  Chicago. 


[Dr.  Angus  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

London,  Aug.  15, 1881. 
My  Dear  Feiend  : 

*  *  *  I  greatly  fear  there  is  no  document  earlier  than  the 
Bishop's  letter,  which  I  sent  you.  Convocation  authorized  this 
Committee  to  correspond  and  arrange  with  foreign  scholars. 
That  resolution  was  pubHshed  as  part  of  the  original  programme. 
When  I  was  visiting  the  States  in  1870  I  spoke  to  the  Bishop  of 


AMERICAIN^    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  38 

Gloucester,  our  acting  chairman,  and  said  that  if  I  could  help  on 
our  work  on  your  side  I  would  gladly  do  so.  This  note  was  the 
result.  I  had  previously  had  a  large  amount  of  consultation  with 
him  on  various  questions  :  my  speaking  to  him  on  the  matter  was 
very  informal.  On  my  return  I  presented  my  report,  and  then 
Dean  Stanley,  as  a  member  of  the  original  Committee,  took  up  the 
matter  and  corresponded  with  you.  Meanwhile,  the  lawyers  de- 
clared that  our  Company  (not  the  Committee  of  Convocation) 
alone  had  power  over  our  work,  so  that  the  correspondence  was 
between  your  Companies  and  ours.  That  correspondence  you 
have,  and  any  resolutions  in  relation  to  it  (which  are  very  few 
however,)  are  on  otir  minutes,  which  minutes  are  now  deposited 
in  the  Lambeth  Library. 

The  note  I  sent  you,  therefore,  is  really  the  beginning  of  every- 
thing :  the  documents  came  after,  when  the  scholars  named  were 
requested  to  act,  or  recognized  as  acting,  in  that  matter.  The 
exact  wording  you  ought  to  have,  or  it  may  be  seen  in  our  minutes. 
The  words  "  at  his  request,"  in  the  Bishop's  letter,  mean  simply 
that  I  pressed  the  importance  of  American  co-operation,  and 
offered  to  do  anything  I  could  to  secure  it ;  the  confirmation  of 
all  depending,  of  course,  on  the  subsequent  action  of  the  Com- 
panies. 


With  all  affectionate  regards, 


Joseph  Angus. 


[Dean  Stanley  to  Dr.  ScliafE  *J 


Deanery,  Westminster  Abbey,  \ 
London,  Jan.  13,  1871.      [ 
My  Dear  Sir: 

I  have  been  in  communication  with  Dr.  Angus  on  the  subject 
of  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Bible,  now  set  on 
foot  by  two  Companies  of  English,  Scottish,  and  Irish  scholars, 
appointed  under  the  authority  of  the  Committee  of  the  Convoca- 
tion of  the  Province  of  Canterbury. 

By  that  Committee,  and  in  pursuance  of  a  vote  of  the  Lower 
House  of  Convocation,  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  and  myself  were 
requested  to  ask  the  friendly  co-operation  of  some  divines  fi'om 
the  United  States  of  America  in  a  work  that,  it  was  felt,  concerned 

■"  [The  handwriting  of  the  late  Dean  Stanley  is  almost  illegible,  and,  with  all 
the  care  taken  in  deciphering  his  hieroglyphics,  it  is  quite  possible  that  some 
slight  mistakes  may  have  been  made.] 
3 


34  DOCUMENTARY    IIISTOllY    OF    THE 

that  vast  part  of  the  EngHsh-speaking  races  of  the  world  as  nearly 
as  ourselves.  I  find  that  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  has  aU-eady 
communicated  on  the  subject  with  Bishop  Potter,"  with  the  view 
of  procuring  the  assistance  of  such  scholars  as  the  Protestant 
Episcopal  Cliurch  of  America  may  furnish ;  and  I,  therefore, 
undertake  the  charge  of  addressing  myself  to  you,  as  having  been 
the  centre,  as  I  understand,  of  the  communications  of  the  non- 
Episcopalian  churches  with  Dr.  Angus  during  his  recent  visit. 
Mav  I  ask  you,  in  consideration  of  the  distance  of  space  and  the 
length  of  time  which  would  be  involved  in  rej)eated  correspond- 
ence with  each  member,  to  enter  into  such  negotiations  as  you 
may  deem  advisable  with  the  scholars  of  these  churches  ? 

It  will,  of  course,  be  readily  understood  that  the  object  of 
the  Committee  of  Convocation  and  of  the  revising  Companies  is 
to  procure  the  assistance  of  which  I  speak  purely  on  the  ground 
of  scholastic  and  Biblical  qualifications — the  assistance,  as  the 
vote  of  Convocation  expressed  it,  "  of  any  eminent  for  scholar- 
ship, to  whatever  nation  or  religious  body  they  may  belong." 
With  this  view  I  have  consulted  with  Dr.  Angus  and  others,  and 
venture  to  submit  a  list  of  such  eminent  persons  as  have  occurred 
to  us  as  falling  within  the  above  description.  You  will,  perhaps, 
have  no  difficulty  in  arranging  with  them,  and,  also  (if  you  think 
fit),  with  Bishop  Potter,  representing  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church,  and  to  wdiom  I  have  not  written,  as  the  Bishop  will 
understand,  only  because  he  has  already  received  a  communication 
from  my  superior  in  rank,  the  Bishop  of  Winchester. 

The  details  of  the  mode  of  co-operation  will  easily  suggest 
themselves ;  on  them  I  need  not  at  present  enter,  but  will  con- 
clude with  the  hope  that  the  joint  and  cordial  co-operation  in  this 
great  and  holy  work  may  add  another  link  to  the  friendly  inter- 
course and  communion  between  Enghsh  Christendom  and  that 
powerful  and  ever-increasing  offspring  that  it  has  produced  be- 
yond the  Atlantic. 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

A.  P.  Stanley. 

[Tliis  letter  ii,  accompanied  by  two  papers:  (1)  the  principles  and  rules  of  the 
British  Companies  (A),  which  will  be  found  further  on  in  the  letter  of  invitation 
to  American  revisers  (p.  43),  and  (2)  by  the  following  list  of  revisers  (B)  and  Post- 
script.] 

*  [This  letter  is  not  accessible,  but  a  later  letter  of  Bishop  Wilberforce,  dated 
Aug.  7,  1871,  is  given  below,  together  with  the  action  of  the  American  House  of 
Bishops  declining  to  co-operate.     See  pp.  47  and  48.] 


AMEKICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  35 

[B.] 

List  of  names  suggested  bj  Dr.  Augus  after  conference  with 
American  divines. 

Old  Testament. 

Dr.  T.  J.  Conant,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Prof.  W.  H.  Green,  D.D.,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Prof.  Tayler  Lewis,  Union  College,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

Prof.  C.  M.  Mead,  Andover. 

Dr.  Van  Dyck,  Beyrut,  Syria. 

Dr.  "Whedon,  New  York. 

New  Testament. 

E.  Abbott,  LL.D.,  Librarian  of  Harvard  Col.,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Prof.  H.  B.  Hackett,  D.D.,  Eochester,  N.  Y. 

Prof.  Kendrick,  D.D.,  Eochester,  N.  Y. 

Prof.  C.  P.  Krautb,  University  of  Pa.,  Phila. 

Prof.  Jas.  Strong,  D.D.,  Drew  Seminary,  Madison,  N.  J. 

Prof.  C.  E.  Stowe,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Prof.  Dr.  Philip  Schaff,  New  York. 

Prof.  Shedd,  D.D.,  New  York. 

Prest.  T.  D.  Woolsey,  D.D.,  Yale  College,  New  Haven. 


The  Episcopalian  divines  suggested  by  Dr.  Angus  are  here 
omitted,  in  consideration  of  the  communication  opened  between 
the  Bishop  of  Winchester  and  Bishop  Potter,  it  being  thought 
more  convenient  and  important  that  they  should  be  invited 
through  that  channel. 

It  has  also  occurred  to  me  that  on  points  of  language  and 
taste  it  would  be  right  to  consult  Dr.  Longfellow,  the  poet,  and 
Mr.  Marsh,  author  of  the  well-known  work  on  the  English  lan- 
guage. 

P.S. — You  will  understand  that  the  long  delay  which  has  taken 
place  has  been  occasioned  only  by  the  necessity  of  discussing, 
with  the  various  persons  here  concerned,  the  best  mode  of  action. 

It  may,  perhaps,  prevent  any  further  necessity  of  correspond- 
ence to  and  fro,  if  I  add  that  the  arrangement  which  was  dis- 
cussed between  you  and  Dr.  Angus  seems  to  be  perfectly  satisfac- 
tory, and  no  doubt  would  commend  itself  to  the  Companies  here, — 


36  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

that  the  British  Companies  sliall,  from  time  to  time,  communicate 
to  the  American  Companies  such  parts  of  their  work  as  have 
passed  the  first  revision,  and  that  the  American  Companies  shoukl 
communicate  their  suggestions  to  the  British  Companies,  if  possi- 
ble, before  the  second  revision. 

The  enclosed  paper  (A)''"'  will  indicate  the  principles  on  which 
the  British  Companies  act,  and  on  Avhich,  of  C(nirse,  tlie  American 
Companies  Avoiild  act  for  the  sake  of  uniforuiity. 

The  enclosed  list  (B)  contains  the  names  to  which  I  referred  in 
my  letter  ; — many  of  the  persons  so  indicated  have,  I  understand, 
indicated  their  willingness  to  serve, 

A.  P.  S. 

[I)r.  Scliaff  to  Doan  Slatilcy.] 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Feb.  7,  1871. 
The  Yei'ii  Rev.  the  J)^.aii  of  Wesimuisler. 
My  Deah  Dean  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter  of 
January  13th,  in  which  you  authorize  mo,  in  the  name  of  the  two 
Companies  of  British  divines  for  the  revision  of  the  English  ver- 
sion of  the  Bible,  and  in  pursuance  of  a  vote  of  the  LoAver 
House  of  the  Convocation  of  the  Province  of  Canterbury,f  to 
invite  a  certain  number  of  American  scholars,  whose  names  I  liad 
suggested  to  our  friend  Dr.  Angus,  at  his  request,  during  his 
recent  visit  to  this  country,  to  form  a  Committee  in  friendly  co- 
operation with  the  l^ritish  Committ(M),  for  the  promotion  of  the 
important  work  entrusted  to  tlieir  care. 

It  will  afford  mo  great  pleasure  to  extend  this  invitation  to  the 
gentlemen  named  in  your  letter,  including  the  two  distinguished 
laymen  (Mr.  Longfellow  and  the  Hon.  Geo.  P.  Marsh),  whom  you 
very  properly  suggest  as  being  well  qualified  to  aid  the  Committee 
by  tlieir  advice  on  points  of  Innguagci  and  taste. 

As  to  the  selection  of  suitable  Biblical  scholars  who  are  to 
represent  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  I  shall,  at  j-our  sug- 
gestion, put  myself  in  communication  with  Bishop  Potter,  of  the 
Diocese  of  New  York,  and  inform  him  that  I  am  ready  to  act  in 
concert  with  him  in  this  wliole  matter. 

*[The  principles  and  rules  adopted  by  the  British  Revision  Companies.  See 
p.  42.] 

I  [The  resolutions  were  adopted  by  Oath  Houses  of  Convocation.] 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    KEVISIOX    COMMITTEE.  3T 

There  is  a  deep  and  growing  interest  among  tlic  cliurclies  of 
America  in.  tlie  work  of  such  a  careful  and  judicious  revision  of 
our  admirable  version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  as  will  adapt  it  to 
the  present  state  of  sound  Biblical  scholarship  without  sacrific- 
ing its  idiom  and  hallowed  associations,  or  any  of  its  beauties  and 
felicities.  There  is,  moreover,  a  strong  confidence  in  the  ability 
and  soundness  of  Christian  scholarship  which  lias  already  been 
enlisted  in  behalf  of  this  revision.  In  my  opinion  the  British 
companies  are  abundantly  competent  to  discharge  tlicir  trust 
without  foreign  assistance.  Yet,  inasmuch  as  the  revision 
concerns  all  denominations  who  use  the  English  version  in 
public  Avorship  and  in  their  daily  devotions,  it  is  extremely  desir- 
able to  secure  at  the  outset  the  hearty  sympathy  and  co-operation 
of  representative  Biblical  scholars  from  all  parts  of  Anglo-Saxon 
Christendom,  so  that  the  revision  may  appear  with  a  sort  of 
oecumenical  authority. 

I  am  happy  to  learn  that  the  suggestions  I  made  to  Dr.  Angus 
in  regard  to  the  l)est  mode  of  co-operation  meets  your  approval ; 
namely,  that  the  English  Companies  of  the  O.  and  N.  T.  transmit, 
from  time  to  time,  such  portions  of  their  work  as  have  passed 
the  first  revision,  to  the  American  Committee  for  their  examina- 
tion and  suggestions,  which  are  to  be  returned  before  the  second 
and  final  revision. 

As  soon  as  I  shall  receive  the  first  part  of  your  work,  say  the 
Gospel  of  St.  Matthew,  which  I  understand  is  about  half  com- 
pleted, I  shall  invite  the  members  of  the  Committee  to  meet  in 
my  study,  or  some  other  convenient  place,  for  the  purpose  of 
organizing  and  proceeding  with  their  work  as  expeditiously  as 
possible. 

In  conclusion,  I  can  only  reciprocate  your  wish  that  this  enter- 
prise may  strengthen  the  union  between  Great  Britain  and  the 
United  States  on  the  basis  of  the  revealed  Word  of  our  common 
Lord. 

In  pleasant  remembrance  of  our  interviews  at  Oxford  in  184:4, 
and  in  the  Deanery  of  Westminster  in  May,  18(59, 
I  am,  with  profound  respect, 

Yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


38  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

[Dr.  SchaiT  to  Bishop  Pott-r.]  v 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Feb.  S,  1871. 

The  Right  Rev.  Bishop  Potter,  D.D.,  New  Yorlc. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  received  a,  communication  "from  the  Dean  of  Westmin- 
ster, authorizing  me,  in  the  name  of  the  two  British  Companies 
for  the  revision  of  tlie  EngHsh  Version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures, 
and  in  pursuance  of  a  vote  passed  by  the  Convocation  of  the 
Province  of  Canterbury,  to  invite  a  certain  number  of  Biblical 
scholars  of  the  various  non-Episcopal  denominations  in  the  United 
States  whose  names  I  had  previously  suggested,  by  request,  to 
form  an  American  Committee  in  co-operative  union  with  the 
British  Committee  for  the  accomplishment  of  the  work  of  re- 
vision, which  concerns  all  branches  of  Christendom  using  the 
Authorized  English  Version  in  public  worship  and  in  their  daily 
devotions. 

I  have  also  been  informed  that  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  has 
written,  or  will  write,  to  you  concerning  the  selection  of  suitable 
Biblical  scholars  who  are  to  represent  the  Protestant  Episcopal 
Church  in  the  United  States. 

At  the  suggestion  of  Dean  Stanley,  I  beg  leave  to  inform  you 
that  I  am  ready  to  receive  any  communication  you  may  be 
pleased  to  make  to  me  on  the  subject,  and  to  act  in  concert  with 
you  in  this  important  enterprise. 

I  embrace  this  opportunity  to  assure  you  of  the  high  consider- 
ation with  which  I  subscribe  myself, 

Your  obedient  servant  in  the  Lord, 

Philip  Schaff. 


[Bishop  Potter  to  Dr.  Sraiaff.] 

New  York,  38  East  Twenty-second  Street,  ) 
Feb.  14,  1S71.  f 

To  the  Rev.  Dr.  SeJurff. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 
I  beg  to  acknowledge  the  communication  made  by  you  at  the 
suggestion   of  Dean  Stanley  respecting  the  subject  of  revision, 
and  to  Hfij,—;first,  that  my  letters  from  the  Bishop  of  "Winchester 
touching  that  undertaking  have  as  yet  made  no  reference  to  the 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    CO.AIMITTEE.  d9 

formation  of  an  American  Comtuittee,  and,  second,  that  it  will  not 
be  in  my  power,  in  any  event,  to  take  any  action  in  relation  to  it. 

I  am,  my  dear  sir, 
Yery  respectfully  and  cordially  yours, 

Horatio  Potter. 

[Dr.  Schaff  to  Dean  Stanlej.] 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Feb.  27,  '71. 
The  Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Westminster. 
My  Dear  Dean  : 

I  have  made  all  arraogements  for  carrjdng  out  your  wishes  in 
regard  to  American  co-operation  Avitli  the  work  of  revision,  but 
a  communication  from  Dr.  Potter,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  of  New  York,  makes  it  desirable  to 
wait  for  further  instructions. 

At  your  suggestion,  I  wrote  to  the  Bishop  that  I  was  ready  to 
receive  any  communication  he  may  desire  to  make  to  me  on  the 
subject,  and  to  act  in  concert  with  him.  He  courteously  replied, 
first,  that  his  letters  from  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  have  as  yet 
made  no  reference  to  the  formation  of  an  American  Committee, 
and  second,  that  "  it  will  not  be  in  his  power,  in  any  event,  to  take 
any  action  in  relation  to  it." 

Please  inform  me  as  early  as  convenient : 

(1)  Whether  you  wish  me  to  organize  the  Committee  as  far  as 
the  non-Episcopal  scholars  are  concerned,  without  waiting  for 
further  action  on  the  part  of  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  and  his 
correspondents  in  this  country. 

(2)  Whether,  in  riew  of  Bishop  Potter's  declining  to  act  in  the 
matter,  I  may  be  authorized  to  invite  Bishop  Mcllvaine,  of  Ohio 
(who  is  well  known  in  England),  the  Bev.  Dr.  Washburn,  of  Cal- 
vary Church,  New  York  (a  highly  accomplished  scholar),  or  any 
other  Episcopal  scholars  you  might  name,  to  act  as  members  of 
the  American  Co-operative  Committee  on  Be  vision. 

Most  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[Dean  Stanley  to  Dr.  SchafE.] 

Deanery,  Westminster,  April  8,  1871. 
My  Dear  Sir: 

I  have  to  apologize  for  the  long  delay  in  aus\v'ering  your  last 
letter. 


40  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

It  has  been  solely  occasioned  by  the  preoccupations  of  the  Bishop 
of  Winchester,  which  prevented  him  from  being  able  to  give  his 
attention  to  the  subject  at  an  earlier  date. 

I  now,  with  the  Bishop's  approval,  write  to  say  that  we  do  not 
feel  ourselves  authorised  to  offer  any  suggestions  for  the  regula- 
tion of  the  mutual  relations  of  the  American  scholars  amongst 
themselves. 

I  had  written  to  you  on  the  supposition  that,  as  in  England,  so 
in  America,  the  Episcopalian  scholars  would  have  felt  no  difficulty 
in  co-023erating  with  their  non-Episcopalian  brethren,  and  I  would 
still  hope  that  this  may  eventually  be  found  to  be  the  case.  But 
at  this  distance  of  space  and  time,  and  in  the  presence  of  the  ob- 
jections which  your  letter  communicates  to  us,  I  think  it  better 
that  any  arrangements  of  this  kind  on  the  other  side  of  the 
Atlantic  should  be  left  to  be  settled  amongst  yourselves. 

My  former  letter  was,  as  you  are  aware,  seut  on  the  understand- 
ing that  the  names  mentioned  to  me  by  Dr.  Angus  were  such  as 
would  commend  themselves  to  the  scholars  of  the  United  States, 
and  that  the  communication  with  the  Episcopalian  Church 
through  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  was  the  mode  that  Avould  be 
most  agreeable  and  most  respectful  to  themselves. 

If  you  think  it  advisable,  with  a  view  of  preventing  any  further 
misunderstandings,  to  publish  my  correspondence  with  you,  you 
are  quite  at  liberty  to  do  so  ;  and  I  trust  that,  in  that  case,  the 
slight  difficulty  which  has  arisen  may  be  dispelled. 

Yours  faithfully, 

A.  P.  Stanley. 

I  may  add  that  the  provisional  revision  of  the  Gospel  of  St. 
Matthew  and  of  the  Book  of  Genesis  will  not  be  completed  lor 
some  weeks,  and  till  that  time  it  would  be  premature  to  send  over 
any  proof-sheets. 

I  may  also  add  that  the  resolutions  of  Convocation  anent  wliich 
these  communications  have  been  made,  were  not,  as  might  be  in- 
ferred from  a  passage  in  your  letter,  confined  to  the  Lower  House, 
but  were  unanimously  adopted  by  both  Houses,  and  as  such  acted 
upon  by  the  Joint  Committee,  consisting  of  members  of  the  Upper 
as  well  as  of  the  Lower  House. 

A.  P.  S. 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    EEVISIOIN'    COMMITTEE.  41 

[Dr.  ScliafE  to  Dean  Stanley.] 

Bible  House,  New  Yobk,  May  1,  1871. 
Tlie  Very  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Westminster. 
My  De.\ii  Dean  : 

I  received  Toiir  letter  of  April  8,  in  wbicli  you  renew  your  re- 
quest, witli  the  approval  of  the  Bishop  of  Winchester,  that  I 
should  organize  an  American  Committee  on  the  revision  of  the 
Authorized  English  Version  of  the  Bible  in  co-operative  union 
with  tlie  British  Committee. 

I  shall  now  without  further  delay  proceed  in  this  work  and  dis- 
charge the  trust  as  weU  as  I  can.  I  intend  to  confine  myself  to  a 
small  and  select  number  of  Biblical  scholars  of  recognized  author- 
ity and  representative  character,  who  are  able  and  willing  to  give 
efiicient  aid  in  this  important  and  responsible  enterprise. 

I  have  drawn  up  a  plan,  and  submit  to  you  three  printed  docu- 
ments :  1.  A  Letter  of  Invitation.  2.  The  Principles  of  the 
British  Committee.  3.  Draught  of  a  Constitution  of  the  Amer- 
ican Committee.  I  shall  be  glad  to  learn  your  opinion  on  this 
plan. 

I  do  not  see  any  good  reason  at  present  for  publishing  our  cor- 
respcndence. 

I  expect  to  sail  for  England  early  in  June,  and  hope  to  confer 
with  you  and  other  members  of  the  Committee  personally  on  this 
subject. 

With  great  respect,  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


[Documents  submitted  to  Deau  Stanley,  as  promised  iu  preceding  letter.] 

1.  Letter  of  Invitation. 

No.  38  Bible  House,  New  York, 1871. 

Dear  Sik  : 

I  have  been  requested  and  authorized  by  the  British  Committee  for  a  revision 
of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  through  the  Dean  of  West- 
minster, to  form  an  American  Committes  in  co-operative  union  with  the  British, 
and.  to  invite  a  select  number  of  Biblical  scholars  from  different  denominations  to 
assist  in  the  proposed  revision. 

You  are  aware  that  this  important  work  has  begun  under  very  favorable 
auspices,  and  has  already  enlisted  the  best  Biblical  scholarship  of  Great  Britain. 

It  affords  me  great  pleasure  to  extend  to  you,  hereby,  an  invitation  to  become  a 
member  of  the  Old  (JYew)  Testament  Company  of  the  American  Committee. 

I  trust  that  you  will  not  hesitate  to  co-operate  in  a  work  which  concerns  all 
branches  of  American  Christendom  as  much  as  those  of  British,  and  which  will 


42  DOCUMENT AKY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

be  followed  with  deep  interest  by  all  who  use  the  Englisli  Bible  in  their  public 
and  private  devotions. 

To  facilitate  your  decision,  I  inclose  the  principles  and  rules  of  revision  which 
have  been  adopted  by  the  two  Companies  of  the  British  Committee,  and  also  the 
draught  of  a  constitution  for  the  American  Committee,  whicli  will  be  submitted 
to  them  when  they  are  convened  for  organization. 

In  accordance  with  a  provisional  arrangement,  the  two  Companies  of  the  British 
Committee  will  forward,  from  time  to  time,  such  portions  of  their  -work  as  have 
passed  the  first  revision  to  the  American  Companies  for  examination,  and  the 
American  Companies  will  send  the  results  of  their  deliberations  to  England  before 
the  second  revision. 

As  soon  as  the  first  portion  of  the  revision  (the  Gospel  of  Matthew)  arrives,  I 
intend  to  invite  those  members  of  the  American  Committee  who  have  in  the 
meantime  accepted  the  appointment,  to  meet  in  New  York,  for  the  purpose  of 
effecting  an  organization  and  proceeding  with  their  work  in  such  manner  as  they 
may  deem  best. 

Hoping  to  hear  from  you  at  your  earliest  convenience,  I  aui,  in  Christian  bonds, 

Truly  yours, 

PniLIP   SCHAFF. 

[A] 

PRINCIPLES   AND   RULES   OF   THE   BRITISH   COM- 
MITTEE. 

At  the  first  meeting  of  the  Committee,  appointed  by  the  Con- 
vocation of  Canterbury,  May  6,  1870,  in  accordance  with  the  sub- 
joined Report,*  accepted  by  Convocation  at  its  last  session,  the 
following  resohttions  and  rules  were  tigreetl  to  as  the  funda- 
mental principles  on  which  the  revision  is  to  be  conducted : 

Kesolved, — 

I.  That  the  Committee  appointed  by  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury  at  its  last 
Session  separate  itself  into  two  Companies,  the  one  for  the  revision  of  the 
Authorised  Version  of  the  Old  Testament,  the  other  for  the  revision  of  the 
Authorised  Version  of  the  New  Testament. 

II.  That  tlie  Company  for  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Old 
Testament  consist  of  the  Bishops  of  St.  David'.-^,  Llundaff,  Ely,  Lincoln,  and  Bath 
and  Wells,  and  of  the  following  members  froui  the  Lower  House:  Archdeacon 
Rose,  Canon  Selwyn,  Dr.  Jebb,  and  Dr.  Kay. 

*  "  1.  That  it  is  desirable  that  a  revision  of  the  Autlioriscd  Version  of  tlie  Holy  Scriptures  lie 
undertaken." 

"  2.  That  tlie  revision  bo  so  conducted  as  to  comprise  both  marginal  renderings  and  such 
emendations  as  it  may  be  found  necessary  to  insert  in  the  te.Kt  of  the  Authorised  Version." 

".3.  That  in  the  above  resolutions  we  do  not  contemplate  any  new  translation  of  the  IMhlc,  or 
any  alteration  of  tlie  language,  except  where,  in  tlie  judgment  of  the  most  competent  scholars, 
such  change  is  necessary." 

"4.  That  in  such  necessary  changes,  the  style  of  the  language  employed  in  the  existing  version 
be  closely  followed." 

"  5.  That  it  is  desirable  that  Convocation  should  nominate  a  body  of  its  own  members  to  un- 
dertake the  work  of  revision,  who  shall  be  at  liberty  to  invite  the  co-operation  of  any  eminent  for 
scholarship,  to  whatever  nation  or  religious  body  they  may  belong." 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    EEVISIOIST    COMMITTEE. 


43 


III.  That  the  Company  for  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  New 
Testament  consist  of  the  Bishops  of  Winchester,  Gloucester  and  Bristol,  and 
Salisbury,  and  of  the  following  members  from  the  Lower  House  :  the  Prolocutor, 
the  Deans  of  Canterbury  and  Westminster  and  Canon  Blakesley. 

IV.  That  the  first  portion  of  the  work  to  be  undertaken  by  the  Old  Testament 
Company  be  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Pentateuch. 

V.  That  the  first  portion  of  the  work  to  be  undertaken  by  the  Xew  Testament 
Company  be  the  revision  of  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Synoptical  Gospels. 

VI.  That  the  following  scholars  and  divines  be  invited  to  join  the  Old  Testa- 
ment Company  : — 


ALEXANDER,  Dr.  W.  L. 
CHENERY,  Professor 
COOK,  Canon 
DAVIDSON,  Professor  A.B. 
DAVIES,  Dr.  B. 
FAIRBAIRN,  Professor 
FIELD,  Rev.  F. 


GINSBURG,  Dr. 
GOTCH,  Dr. 

HARRISON,  Archdeacon 
LEATHES,  Professor 
McGILL,  Professor 
PAYNE  SMITH.  Canon 
PEROWNE,  Prof.  J.  H. 


PLUMPTRE,   Professor 

PUSEY,  Canon 

WRIGHT,  Dr.  (British 
Museum) 

WRIGHT,  W.  A.  (Cam- 
bridge) 


VII.  That  the  following  scholars  and  divines  be  invited  to  join  the  New  Tes- 
tament Company  : — 


ANGUS,  Dr. 
BROWN,  Dr.  DAVID 
DUBLIN,  Archbishop  of 
EADIE,  Dr. 
HORT.  Rev.  F.  J.  A. 
HUMPHRY,  Rev.  W.  G. 
KENNEDY,  Canon 


LEE,  Archdeacon 
LIGHTFOOT,  Dr. 
MILLIGAN.  Professor 
MOULTON,  Professor 
NEWMAN,  Dr.  J.  H. 
NEWTH,  Professor 
ROBERTS,  Dr.  A. 


SMITH,  Rev.  G.  VANCE 
SCOTT,  Dr.  (Balliol  Coll.) 
SCRIVENER,  Rev.  F. 
ST.  ANDREWS,  Bp.  of 
TREGELLES,  Dr. 
VAUGIIAN,  Dr. 
WESTCOTT,  Canon 


VIIL  That    the    general  principles  to  be  followed  by  both  Companies  be  as 
follows  : 

1.  To  introduce  as  few  alterations  as  possible  into  the  test  of  the  Authorised 

Version  consistently  with  faithfulness. 

2.  To  limit  as  far  as  possible  the  expression  of  such  alterations  to  the  lan- 

guage of  the  Authorised  and  earlier  English  versions. 

3.  Each  Company  to  go  twice  over  the  portion  to  be  revised,  once  provision- 

ally, the  second  time  finally,  and  on  principles  of  voting  as  hereinafter 
is  provided. 

4.  That  the  text  to  be  adopted  be  that  for  which  the  evidence  is  decidedly 

preponderating  ;  and  that  when  the  text  so  adopted  differs  from  that 
from  which  the  Authorised  Version  was  made,  the  alteration  be  indi- 
cated in  the  margin. 

5.  To  make  or  retain  no  change  in  the  text  on  the  second  final  revision  by 

each  Company,  except  two-thirds  of  those  present  approve  of  the  same, 
but  on  the  first  revision  to  decide  by  simple  majorities. 

6.  In  every  case  of  proposed  alteration  that  may  have  given  rise  to  discus- 

sion, to  defer  the  voting  thereupon  till  the  next  meeting,  whensoever 
the  same  shall  be  required  by  one-third  of  those  present  at  the  meeting, 
such  intended  vote  to  be  announced  in  the  notice  for  the  next  meeting. 

7.  To  revise  the  headings  of  chapters,  pages,  paragraphs,  italics,  and  punctu- 

ation. 

8.  To  refer,  on  the  part  of  each  Company,   wlien  considered  desirable,  to 

divines,  scholars,  and  literary  men,  whether  at  home  or  abroad,  for 
their  opinions. 


44  DOCUMEXTAllY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

IX.  That  tlio  work  of  each  Company  be  communicated  to  the  other  as  it  is 
completed,  in  order  that  there  may  be  as  little  deviation  from  uniformity  in  lan- 
guage as  possible. 

X.  That  the  special  or  by-rules  for  each  Company  be  as  follows  : 
1.  To  make  all  corrections  in  writing  previous  to  the  meeting. 

3.  To  place  all  the  corrections  due  to  textual  considerations  on  the  left  hand 
margin,  and  all  other  corrections  on  the  right  hand  margin. 

3.  To  transmit  to  the  chairman,  in  case  of  being  unable  to  attend,  the  cor- 
rections proposed  in  tlie  portion  agreed  upon  for  consideration. 

S.  WINTON,*  Chairman. 
May  25,  1870. 


[B] 

DRAUGHT  OF  A  CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  AMERICAN 

COMMITTEE. 

Subject  to  Revision. \ 

I.  The  American  Committea  for  a  revision  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures  to  be  constituted  by  authority  and  with  the  cancurrence  of  the 
British  Committee,  and  to  be  composed  of  a  select  number  of  Biblical  scholars 
and  divines  from  the  leading  Protestant  denominations  of  the  United  States. 

II.  The  American  Committee,  when  constituted,  to  have  the  power  to  elect 
their  officers,  to  add  to  their  number,  and  to  fill  their  own  vacancies. 

III.  The  American  Committee  to  co-operate  with  the  British  Committee  on 
terms  of  fraternal  equality,  and  on  the  basis  of  the  principles  and  rules  of  revision 
adopted  by  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury  and  the  British  Committee. 

IV.  The  American  Committee  to  separate  itself  into  two  Companies,  the  one 
for  the  revision  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  Old  Testament,  the  other  for  the 
revision  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  New  Testament. 

V.  The  British  Committee  to  submit  to  the  American  Committee,  from  time 
to  time,  such  portions  of  their  work  as  have  passed  the  first  revision,  and  the 
American  Committee  to  transmit  their  criticisms  and  suggestions  to  the  British 
Committee  before  the  second  revision. 

VI.  A  joint  meeting  of  both  Committees  to  be  held,  if  possible,  in  London  or 
New  York,  before  final  action. 

VII.  The  American  Committee  to  pay  their  own  expenses,  and  to  have  the 
same  ownership  and  control  of  the  copyright  of  the  Revised  Version  in  the  United 
States  of  America  which  the  British  Committee  have  in  Great  Britain,  until  they 
are  reimbursed  for  the  necessary  expenses  incurred. 

[♦Bishop  Samuel  Wilbcrforce,  of  Winchester.] 

[t  This  constitution,  with  the  suggestions  of  the  Daan  of  Westminster  (see  next  letter),  was 
afterwards  submitted  to,  amondsd,  enlarged,  and  alopted  by  the  American  revisers  at  their  first 
meeting,  December  7,  1871.    See  below.] 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  45 

[Dean  Stanley  to  Dr.  ScliafE.] 

Deanery,  "Westminstee,  May  30,  1871. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  beg  to  tliaiik  you  for  the  papers  whicli  you  have  sent  to  me 
through  Dr.  Adams." 

I  take  the  liberty  of  calliug  your  attention  to  two  or  three  inac- 
curacies almost  inevitable  from  the  complex  nature  of  the  work 
and  of  the  negotiations  involved,  but  which  had  better  be  cor- 
rected in  order  to  avoid  misunderstandings. 

In  your  letter  of  invitation  (paragraph  1)  it  would  be  more 
exact  to  say : 

"The  British  Committee  for  a  revision  of  the  Authorized  Ver- 
"  sion  have  requested  the  Bishop  of  "Winchester  and  the  De..n  of 
"  Westminster  to  communicate  with  the  scholars  of  the  United 
"  States  of  America  with  a  view  to  inviting  their  co-operation  in 
"  the  work  of  revision.  The  Bishop  of  Winchester  has  communi- 
"  cated  with  the  American  Episcopal  Church.  I  have  been 
"  requested  and  authorized  by  the  Dean  of  Westminster  to  com- 
"  municate  with  scholars  from  tlie  other  denominations." 

In  paragraph  7,  of  the  same  paper,  the  phrase  "  the  Gospel  of 
Matthew  "  had  better  be  omitted.  Tliere  is  no  likelihood, — espe- 
cially no  certainty,  of  that  Gospel  being  circulated  for  the  second 
revision  until  further  progress  has  been  made  with  the  work. 

The  Paper  B  :— 

Paragraph  1  had  better  read  thus  : 

"  The  American  Committee  for  a  revision,  etc.,  to  be  composed 
"  of  a  select  number  of  Biblical  scholars  and  divines  from  the 
''  United  States." 

For  (1)  it  is  manifestly  out  of  the  question  for  the  British  Co7n- 
mittee  at  this  distance  of  time  and  space  to  undertake  upon  itself 
"  the  constitution  "  of  the  American  Committee.  That  must  be 
left  to  the  Americans  themselves. 

(2)  As  the  sole  qualification  desired  is  that  of  scholarship,  it  is 
against  the  principles  laid  down  by  the  British  Committee  and 
accepted  by  Convocation  and  the  companies  to  bring  forward  into 
prominence  "  the  leading  denoimnationsy  And,  under  any  circum- 
stances, the  word  "  Protestant  "  is  unnecessary^  and  would  be  in- 

*  [See  the  preceding  three  documents,  which  were  transmitted  with  the  accom- 
panying letter  to  Dean  Stanley  through  the  kindness  of  the  late  Rev.  Dr.  William 
Adams,  President  of  the  Union  Theological  Seminary,  New  York.] 


46  DOCUMENTAEY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

consistent  with  the  invitation  issued  by  the  British  Committee  to 
an  eminent  Eomau  Catholic  (Dr.  Newman).  Dr.  Newman  de- 
cHned  purely  on  grounds  of  his  not  being  sufficiently  familiar  at 
present  with  the  needful  scholarship.  But  there  will  be  no  objec- 
tion on  the  part  of  the  British  Committee  or  Companies  were  any 
Roman  Catholic  scholars  of  the  United  States  willing  to  join.* 

Paragraph  III.  Omit  the  words  "  loith  the  British  Committee  on 
terms  of  fraternal  equaVdyy  For  all  practical  purposes  the  deal- 
ings of  the  American  Committee  will  be  with  the  Companies,  not 
with  the  Committee,  and  the  expression  "fraterno.l  equality" 
though  doubtless  most  reasonable  as  regards  the  spirit  in  which  it 
is  made,  might  mislead  unless  more  carefully  explained. 

Paragraph  Y.  For  the  same  reason  the  words  "  Companies  "  to 
be  substituted  for  "  Committee T 

Paragraph  YI.  The  spirit  of  this  is  excellent,  but  as  it  is  un- 
likely that  it  can  practically  be  carried  into  effect,  and  might, 
therefore,  mislead,  it  had  better  be  omitted. 

Paragraph  YII.  By  a  recent  and  necessarj^  arrangement  the 
copyright  of  the  Revised  Yersion  in  England  will,  so  far  as  is 
practicable,  be  transferred  to  the  two  Universities  that  have 
undertaken  the  cost  of  printing  and  publishing.  The  whole  of 
the  clause,  as  regards  the  copyright,  had,  therefore,  better  be 
omitted  as  inapplicable  and  misleading. 

I  trust  that  these  corrections  will  be  accepted  in  the  spirit  in 
which  they  are  proposed,  and  that  they  will  oln-iate  further  mis- 
apprehensions. 

Yours  faithfully, 

A.  P.  Stanley. 

[Before  tliis  letter  was  received  Dr.  ScliafE  had  a  personal  conference  -\vitb  Dean 
Stanley,  at  Westminster,  and  came  to  a  full  agreement  with  him  on  the  several 
points  of  difEerence.] 

*  [No  Roman  Catholic  divines  were  invited  to  join  the  Committee,  because  it 
was  taken  for  granted  that  their  conscientious  convictions  and  official  position 
would  not  permit  them  to  co-operate  with  Protestants  in  the  revision  of  a  Protest- 
ant translation  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  Cardinal  Newman,  who  was  pre-eminently 
qualified  as  a  scholar  and  master  of  classical  English,  had  no  doubt  weightier 
reasons  for  declining  than  the  one  which  he  modestly  put  forward.] 


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[Letter  of  Bishop  Wilberforce,  of  Winchester,  to  Bishop  Potter,"of  New  York.] 

(Copied  from  the  "Journal  and  Proceedings  of  the  Bishops,  Clergy  and  Laity  of 
the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,"  1872,  pp.  G15-616.) 

BusBniDGE  Hall,  Godalmixg,  Aug.  7,  1871. 
Eight  Eeverend  Brother : 

As  the  time  of  your  General  Convention  approaches,  it  seems 
to  me  due  to  my  high  respect  and  brotherly  afi'ection  for  your 
venerable  body  that  I  should,  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of 
the  Convocation  of  Canterbury  which  is  charged  ^Yith  the  duty  of 
preparing  a  revised  text  of  our  Authorised  Version  of  the  Sacred 
Scriptures,  communicate  formally  to  you  what  has  been  done,  is 
doing,  and  is  intended,  touching  an  enterprise  which  must,  I 
think,  deeply  interest  all  the  English-speaking  branches  of  the 
Church  of  Christ,  and,  very  specially,  our  beloved  sister  commun- 
ion in  America.  The  purpose  for  which  the  Committee  was  ap- 
pointed was  this  : — not  to  make  a  new  translation,  but  to  exhibit, 
in  a  revised  version  of  the  existing  translations,  any  corrections 
which  either  the  discovery  of  new  manuscripts  and  versions  or 
the  advance  of  scholarship,  allowed  the  Committee  to  recommend. 
It  was  our  universal  belief  that  these  corrections,  though  impor- 
tant as  to  technical  accuracy,  would  affect  no  doctrine,  and  add  to 
instead  of  diminishing  the  authority  of  the  present  version.  We 
felt  that  there  Avas  danger  in  leaving  suspicion  free  to  exaggerate 
according  to  her  wont,  small  defects,  and  swell  them  to  dimensions 
which  might  weaken  the  authority  of  the  existing  version.  The 
Committee  having  been  appointed  with  power  to  seek  aliunde  the 
assistance  of  experts  qualitied  by  classical  and  biblical  learning  for 
the  task,  has  formed,  out  of  itself  and  such  associated  workmen, 
two  companies  ;  ore  of  which  is  proceeding  with  a  proposed  revis- 
ion of  the  Old,  and  the  other  of  the  New  Testament.  From  the 
first,  our  Convocation  desired  the  aid  of  your  body,  and  I  have 
myself  made  various  communications  from  it  to  individual  mem- 
bers of  your  Episcopate.  The  approaching  session  of  your  Gren- 
eral  Convention  gives  me  the  opportunity  of  a  more  formal  com- 
munication, which  I  now  make  to  you  as  the  Presiding  Bishop, 
requesting  you  to  bring  the  matter,  in  such  Avay  as  you  deem 
meet,  before  the  General  Convention.  As  our  work  has  pro- 
ceeded, it  has  appeared  impossible  for  us  to  obtain  from  you  in 
the  progress  of  our  labors  that  aid  to  which  Ave  still  look  forward 
at  their  close.     When  the  Avork  of  the  Companies  is  finished,  it 


48  DOCUMENTAKY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

will  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  of  the  Convocation  in  its  sepa- 
rate unity  to  revise  the  work  done,  and  either  to  reject  it,  or  to  lay 
it,  witli  or  without  alterations,  before  the  Convocation  of  Canter- 
bury. That  body  will  then  judge  for  itself  of  the  merit  or  demerit 
of  what  its  Committee  so  joresents  to  it.  Should  the  Convocation 
judge  it  so  far  successful,  it  would  authorize  such  other  steps  as  it 
may  deem  fit.  One  of  these,  I  have  little  doubt,  would  be  to  sub- 
mit the  tentative  revisions  to  the  other  English-speaking  branches 
of  the  Church,  and  should  yonr  Convention  encourage  our  doing 
so,  pre-eminently  to  you.  No  such  important  change  as  any  alter- 
ation in  the  Authorised  Version  of  the  Sacred  Scriptures  could 
be  carried  out  without  allowing  full  time  for  all  such  judgments 
as  that  of  your  branch  of  the  Church  to  be  formed  and  expressed  ; 
nor  until  the  revised  version  had  received  the  sanction  of  general 
approbation  could  it,  in  any  sense,  be  authorised  amongst  our- 
selves. 

Commending  this  important  matter  to  your  care,  and  parnestly 
seeking  your  prayers  for  the  due  fulfilment  of  the  work  in  hand, 
through  the  beavenly  assistance  of  God  the  Holy  Ghost,  for  the 
glory  of  the  eternal  and  ever-blessed  Trinitj^  and  the  edification  of 
the  Church  of  Christ,  I  remain,  right  reverend  and  dear  brother, 
Yours  in  the  bonds  of  the  common  faith. 

(Signed)  Samuel  Wintonensis. 

The  IJiGHT  Rev.  the  Presiding  Bishop  of  the  CncRcn  in  America. 


[Action  of  the  House  of  Bishops  on  the  preceding  letter.] 
(From  the  "Journal,"  etc.,  pp.  262-353.) 

A  communication  from  the  Eight  Ecv.  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Winchester,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  the  Convocation  of 
Canterbury  on  the  Kevision  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures,  to  the  Presiding  Bishop,  was  read  by  the  Secre- 
tary. 

On  motion  of  the  Bishop  of  New  York  it  was 

Resolved,  That  this  comnninication  be  laid  on  the  table,  and 
printed  for  the  use  of  the  House,     (p.  202.) 

The  Bishop  of  New  York  offered  the  following  resolution  : 

Resolved,  That  the  Right  llev.  the  Presiding  Bishop  be  and  is 
hereby  requested  to  return  to  the  Eight  Eev.  the  Lord  Bishop  of 
Winchester  a   courteous  and  brotherly  acknowledgment   of   his 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  49 

communication  relating  to  a  revision  of  the  English  of  the  Holy 
Scriptures,  stating  that  this  House,  having  had  no  part  in  origi- 
nating or  organizing  the  said  work  of  revision,  is  not  at  present  in 
a  condition  to  dehver  any  judgment  respecting  it,  and  at  the 
same  time  expressing  the  disposition  of  this  House  to  consider 
with  candor  the  work  undertaken  by  the  Convocation  of  Canter- 
bury, whenever  it  shall  have  been  completed,  and  its  results  laid 
before  them. 

The  Bishop  of  Louisiana  moved  to  strike  out  the  following 
words  :  "  Having  had  no  part  in  originating  or  organizing  the  said 
work  of  revision  "  ;  which  was  lost. 

The  question  recurring  on  the  original  motion  of  the  Bishop  of 
New  York,  it  was  adopted,  (p.  353.) 


[During  the  summer  of  1871  Dr.  Schaff  had  satisfactory  confereoces  with  the 
English  Companies  in  the  Jerusalem  Chamber,  and  especially  with  the  Dean  of 
Westminster  and  Bishop  Elllcott,  concerning  American  co-operation.  After  his 
return  the  correspondence  was  resumed.] 


My  Deae  Sir  : 


[Dean  Stanley  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Deanery,  Westminster,  Oct.  14, 1871. 


In  answer  to  your  letter  just  received  by  the  Bishop  of  Glouces- 
ter,"^ I  take  up  the  thread  of  the  correspondence  which,  as  I  was 
the  first  to  begin  (under  the  direction  of  the  Committee  of  Con- 
vocation) I  may  as  well  continue. 

Your  proposal  as  to  the  mode  of  transmitting  the  proofs  will  be 
far  the  best  plan.  Our  main  anxiety  is  to  secure  that  under  no 
circumsfcances  shall  the  proof  become  public  or  be  made  known 
bej'ond  the  circle  of  revisers  till  the  time  comes  for  submitting  to 
the  public  such  portions  of  the  work  as  have  received  the  final 
touches  which  it  will  have  received  from  the  various  suggestions 
made  to  us,  whether  from  this  side  or  the  other  side  of  the  At= 
1  antic.  When  that  time  comes  the  public  will  have  every  oppor- 
tunity of  judging  of  our  labors,  but  not  before. 

It  would  be  a  satisfaction  to  the  members  of  the  Company 
(both  for  their  own  information  and  also  for  the  sake  of  the  secu- 
rity to  which  I  refei-)  to  have  a  complete  Ust  of  those  to  whom 
(whether  as  actually  taking  part  in  a  continual  consideration  of 

[*  Of  this  letter  no  copy  is  found  ;  its  contents  must  be  inferred  from  the  answers.] 
4 


50  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

the  revision  or  as  occasional  referees)  tlio  proofs  sliould  be  sent. 
The  list  which  jou  agreed  upon  with  me  when  you  were  here  is 
perhaps  exhaustive,  but  as  I  could  not  be  perfectly  sure  of  this,  I 
think  it  better  that  we  should  have  the  list  exactly  as  it  exists  in 
your  hands.  Yours  faithfully, 

A.  P.  Stanley. 


[Bishop  Ellicott  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Gloucester,  Oct.  23,  1871. 
Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  send  herewith  a  resolution  from  our  Company  which  will  ex- 
plain itself. 

We  meet  again  Nov.  14,  and  if 'this  reaches  in  time  should  be 
rejoiced  to  have  a  hue  from  you  by  that  time. 

I  am  thankful  to  say  that  we  are  going  on  capitally.  We  meet 
for  four  days  every  month,  and  do  on  an  average  forty  verses  a 
day. 

I  trust  this  finds  you  well.  Pray  present  my  best  respects  to 
your  Company.  Very  faithfully  yours, 

C.  J.  Gloucester  and  Bristol. 

RESOLUTION. 

That  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol  be  requested  to  com- 
municate with  Dr.  Schaff  to  the  effect  that  the  work  of  the  N.  T. 
revisers  is  at  present  only  tentative  and  provisional,  and  that  it 
may  be  considerably  altered  at  the  second  revision  ; — but  that 
upon  the  assurance  of  Dr.  Schaft'  that  the  work,  so  far  as  it  is  at 
present  advanced,  will  be  considered  as  stricfly  conjidential,  the 
Company  will  send  a  sufficient  number  of  copies  for  Dr.  Schaff 
and  his  brother  revisers,  for  their  own  private  use,  the  copies  to 
be  in  no  way  made  public  beyond  themselves. 

For  this  purpose  that  Dr.  Schaff  be  requested  to  send  the 
names  and  addresses  of  the  scholars  associated  Avith  him  in  this 
matter  so  soon  as  the  Company  is  completely  formed. 


[Dr.  Schaff  to  Bishop  Ellicott.] 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Nov.  10,  1871. 
My  Dear  Lord  Bishop  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  your  favor  of  Oct.  23  inclos- 


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ing  a  resolution  of  the  New  Testament  Company  of  Revisers  with 
reference  to  American  co-operation. 

In  reply,  I  beg  leave  to  say  that  I  was  fully  aware  of  the  tenta- 
tive and  provisional  character  of  the  Urst  revision,  and  intended 
to  shape  the  American  work  accordingly.  When  I  had  the  pleas- 
ure to  confer  with  you  personally  and  with  the  other  members  of 
the  Company  last  June,  it  was  agreed  that  a  limited  number — 
say  about  thirty  copies — of  the  revision  of  Matthew  should  be  for- 
warded to  me  this  autumn  to  be  distributed  among  the  American 
revisers  for  strictly  jy/n'vafe  use,  and  that  other  portions  of  the 
work  as  it  progresses  should  follow.  The  American  revisers  were 
to  examine  the  work  of  the  English  Companies,  and  to  submit  to 
them  from  time  to  time  the  results  of  their  work  for  the  second 
and  final  revision.  On  my  return  from  the  continent  last  Sept.  I 
called  at  the  Deanery  of  Westminster  and  learned  from  your  Sec- 
retary that  he  would  send  Matthew  as  soon  as  he  had  directions 
from  the  Company,  which  would  meet  again  in  October. 

I  did  not  think  it  worth  while  to  convene  the  American  revisers 
before  I  could  lay  before  them  some  practical  work.  I  have  in- 
vited only  a  limited  number  of  representative  scholars  of  the  lead- 
ing denominations,  and  they  have  accepted,  and  are  ready  to  co- 
operate as  soon  as  I  call  them  together.  I  inclose  a  copy  of  the 
letter  of  invitation  with  the  accompanying  documents.  As  soon 
as  the  Company  is  properly  organized  I  shall  forward  you  the 
names  and  addresses.  But  it  will  be  more  convenient  for  the 
Secretary  to  forward  the  packages  to  me,  and  I  shall  see  that 
every  reviser  receives  a  copy  with  the  understanding  that  no  jjublic 
use  whatever  be  made  of  it.  The  present  number  of  American 
revisers  is  fourteen,  seven  (the  holy  number)  for  the  New  Testa- 
ment, and  seven  for  the  Old.  But  when  they  come  together  they 
may  find  it  advisable  to  increase  the  number.  I  would  rather 
leave  this  to  them,  having  confined  myself  to  such  scholars 
about  whose  qualifications  there  can  be  no  doubt. 

I  shall  now  look  forward  to  a  speedy  transmission  of  Matthew, 
and  shall  be  happy  to  receive  any  communication  your  Lordship 
may  see  proper  to  make  to  me  on  this  important  subject. 

May  the  Holy  Spirit  of  wisdom  and  harmony  preside  over  your 
meetings  and  bless  your  labor  of  love  for  the  advancement  of 
the  Eedeemer's  kingdom.         With  profound  respect. 

Yours  in  the  Lord, 

Philip  Schapf. 
The  Right  Rev.  the  Lord  Bishop  op  GiiOUCESTER  and  Bristol. 


62  DOCUMENTAKY    HISTOKY    OF    THE 

NOTE. 

[On  his  return  from  Europe,  in  autumn,  1871,  Dr.  SchafE  procoedod  with  the 
work  of  organizing  the  American  Committee.  Most  of  the  scholars  applied  to  ac- 
cepted the  invitation,  and  their  letters  are  on  record.  For  those  who  declined, 
others  were  selected  after  proper  consultation.  A  complete  list  of  members  will  be 
given  below.  After  a  sufficient  number  of  members  were  secured  to  justify  an 
organization,  a  meeting  was  called  for  the  purpose.  The  correspondence  relating 
to  this  meeting  and  the  results  of  the  meeting  now  follow.] 


[A  circular  letter  to  the  members  to  convene  for  organization.] 

New  YoiiK,  Nov.  28,  1871. 
My  Deae  Sir  : 

Yon  are  respectfully  invited  to  attend  the  first  meeting  of  the 
American  revisers  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  English 
Bible,  at  my  study,  in  the  Bible  House,  on  Thursday  the  7th  of 
December,  at  10  a.m.,  for  the  purpose  of  effecting  an  organization 
and  adopting  a  constitution. 

You  are  also  invited  to  attend  a  public  meeting  on  Bible  Ke- 
vision  in  Calvary  Episcopal  Church  (Dr.  Washburn's)  in  Fourth 
Avenue,  at  8  o'clock,  on  the  evening  of  the  same  day,  when  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Howson,  Dean  of  Chester,  will  speak  on  the  subject  in 
behalf  of  the  British  Companies  of  Revision," 

Respectfully  yours, 

Philip  Schaef. 

To 

Eev.  Dr.  Woolsey,  New  Raven,  Conn. 
'*     Dr.  Gkeen,  Princeton,  N.  J. 
"     Dr.  Conant,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  and  others. 


[Dr.  Schafl  to  Dean  Howson.] 

New  York,  Nov.  28,  1871. 

The  Very  Eev.  the  Dean  of  Cliester. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  acknowledge  your  favor  of  yesterday  in  which  you  inform  me 
that  you  liave  been  able  to  fix  upon  Thursday  the  7th  of  December 
for  the  public  meeting  on  Bible  Revision. 

This  is  the  best  time,  and  Dr.  Washburn's  church  the  best  place, 

[*  Dean  Howson,  D.D.,  then  present  on  a  visit  in  America,  is  not  one  of  the  Brit- 
ish revisers,  as  he  belongs  to  tlie  Convocation  of  York,  which  refused  to  join  the 
Convocation  of  Canterbury  in  the  I'cvision,  but  he  is  in  full  sympathy  with  the 
movement,  and  expressed  a  desire  to  aid  it  during  his  visit  in  any  way  he  could.  J 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    KEVISIOIST    COMMITTEE.  53 

for  the  meeting.  I  shall  at  once  invite  the  American  revisers  to 
meet  for  organization  in  my  study  in  the  Bible  House,  on  Thurs- 
day the  7th  of  Dec.  at  10  a.m.  You  are  hereby  cordially  invited 
to  meet  with  them.  Some  of  them  may  find  it  convenient  to  at- 
tend the  public  meeting  in  the  evening. 

The  arrangements  for  the  public  meeting  I  must  leave  in  the 
hands  of  your  Episcopal  friends.  Dr.  Cotton  Smith,  I  under- 
stand, is  unwell.  Dr.  Washburn  called  yesterday,  and  expressed 
himself  ready  for  co-operation  whenever  informed  of  your  con- 
clusion. He  expects  to  see  you  this  evening  at  Dr.  Morgan's, 
when  you  can  arrange  with  him  the  details. 

If  I  can  be  of  any  use  to  you  during  the  remainder  of  your  stay 
in  this  country,  I  shall  be  most  happy  to  have  an  opportunity. 
You  will  find  me  in  my  study  every  morning. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

I  inclose  the  Doc.  which  I  have  prepared  so  far  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Am.  revisers. 


[First  Meeting  of  the  American  Committee.] 
(The  following  extract  from  the  Minutes  of  the  Committee  (p.  5),  was  furnished  to 
the  press  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Day,  as  an  authorized  statement  of  the  facts  relating  to 
the  recent  formation  of  an  American  Committee,  in  co-operation  with  the  British 
Committee,  for  the  Revision  of  tlie  English  Version  of  the  Scriptures.) 

New  York,  Dec.  7,  1871. 

At  a  meeting  of  gentlemen  invited  by  Rev.  Philip  Schaff,  D.D., 
to  meet  this  day  at  his  study,  Bible  House,  New  York,  for  the 
purpose  of  forming  an  organization  to  co-operate  with  the  British 
Committee  in  the  revision  of  the  Authorized  English  version  of  the 
Scriptures,  the  following  persons  were  present,  viz.  : 

Prof.  Philip  Schaff,  D.D.,  New  York ;  Prof.  Henry  B.  Smith, 
D.D.,  New  York  ;  Prof.  William  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  Princeton, 
N.  J.  ;  Prof.  George  Emlen  Hare,  D.D.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  ;  Prof. 
Chas.  P.  Krauth,  D.D.,  Philadelphia;  Rev.  Thos.  J.  Conant, 
D.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ;  Prof.  George  E.  Day,  D.D.,  New  Haven, 
Conn. ;  Ezra  Abbot,  LL.D.,  Cambridge,  Mass. ;  Rev.  Edward  A. 
Washburn,  D.D.,  New  York. 

Dr.  Howson,  Dean  of  Chester,  was  also  present  by  special  in- 
vitation, and  took  part  in  the  deliberations. 

Ex-President  Woolsey,  Prof.  Hackett,  Prof.  Strong,  and  others. 


54  DOCUMENTARY    HISTOKY    OF    THE 

were  prevented  from  attending,  but  expressed  by  letter  tlieir 
hearty  interest  in  the  proposed  work,  and  their  readiness  to  co- 
operate. 

The  meeting  was  organized  by  the  appointment  of  Prof.  Henry 
B.  Smith  as  Chairman,  and  Prof.  Geo.  E.  Day  as  Secretary. 

After  prayer  by  the  Chairman,  Dr.  Schaff  introduced  the  sub- 
ject of  the  meeting  by  stating  that  he  had  been  requested  by  the 
British  Committee  for  the  Revision  of  the  Authorized  English 
Version  of  the  Scriptures,  through  the  Dean  of  Westminster,  to 
invite  American  scholars  to  co-operate  with  them  in  this  work. 
He  had  accordingly  extended  such  an  invitation  to  a  limited 
number  of  scholars,  most  of  them  professors  of  biblical  learning 
in  theological  seminaries  of  the  leading  Protestant  denomina- 
tions. In  the  delicate  task  of  selection,  he  had  reference,  first  of 
all,  to  the  reputation  and  occupation  of  the  gentlemen  as  bibli- 
cal scholars  ;  next,  to  their  denominational  connection  and  stand- 
ing so  far  as  to  have  a  fair- representation  of  the  American 
churches  ;  and  lastly,  to  local  convenience,  in  order  to  secure  reg- 
ular attendance  on  the  meetings.  He  would  have  gladly  invited 
others,  but  thought  it  best  to  leave  the  responsibility  of  enlarge- 
ment to  the  Committee  itself  when  properly  constituted.  He  had 
personally  conferred  during  last  summer  with  Bishop  EUicott, 
Dean  Stanley,  Prof.  Lightfoot,  Prof.  Westcott,  Dr.  Angus,  and 
other  British  revisers,  about  the  details  of  the  proposed  plan  of 
co-operation,  and  was  happy  to  state  that  it  met  their  cordial  ap- 
proval. 

Dr.  Schaff  then  read  the  following  list  of  scholars  who  had  been 
invited  to  engage  in  this  work,  and  who  have  accepted  the  invita- 
tion: 

I,   Oil  the  Old  Testament. 

Rev.  Thomas  J.  Conant,  D.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Prof.  George  E.  Day,  D.D.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

"     John  De  Witt,  D.D.,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

"     Wm.  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

"     George  Emlen  Hare,  D.D.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

*'     Charles  P.  Krauth,  D.D.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

*'     Joseph  Packard,  D.D.,  Fairfax,  Va. 

"     Calvin  Ellis  Stowe,  D.D.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

'*    James  Strong,  D.D.,  Madison  N.  J, 


AMEKICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  55 

Rev.  C.  Y.  A.  Van  Dyck,  D.D.  *  Beynit,  Syria. 
Prof.  Tayler  Lewis,  LL.D.,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 

II.   On  the  New  Testament. 

Ezra  Abbot,  LL.D,,  Cambridge,  Mass. 
Prof.  H.  B.  Hackett,  D.D.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

"     James  Hadley,  LL.D.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

"     Charles  Hodge,  D.D.,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

*'     Matthew  B.  Pdddle,  D.D.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

«     Philip  Schnff,  D.D.,  New  York. 

"     Charles  Short,  LL.D.,  New  York. 

"    Henry  B.  Smith,  D.D.,  New  York. 

"     J.  Henry  Thayer,  D.D  ,  Audover,  Mass. 
Eev.  Edward  A.  Washburn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  New  York. 
"     Theo.  D.  Woolsey,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

A  draft  of  a  constitution  for  the  American  Committee  was 
then  presented  by  Dr.  Schaff,  which,  after  being  considered  arti- 
cle by  article,  and  somewhat  amended,  was  unanimously  adopted, 
and  is  as  follows: 

"  I.  The  American  Committee,  invited  by  the  British  Committee  engaged  in  the 
revision  of  the  Authorized  English  Version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  to  co-operate 
with  them,  shall  be  composed  of  biblical  scholars  and  divines  in  the  United  States. 

"  II.  This  Committee  shall  have  the  power  to  elect  its  oflScers,  to  add  to  its  num- 
ber, and  to  fill  its  own  vacancies. 

"III.  The  officers  shall  consist  of  a  President,  a  Corresponding  Secretaiy,  and  a 
Treasurer.  The  President  shall  conduct  the  official  correspondence  with  the  Brit- 
ish revisers.     The  Secretary  shall  conduct  the  honie  correspondence. 

"  IV.  New  members  of  the  Committee  and  corresponding  members  must  be 
nominated  at  a  previous  meeting,  and  elected  unanimously  by  ballot. 

"V.  The  American  Committee  shall  co-operate  with  the  British  Companies  on 
the  basis  of  the  principles  and  rules  of  revision  adopted  by  the  British  Committee. 

"VI.  The  American  Committee  shall  consist  of  two  Companies,  the  one  for  the 
revision  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  Old  Testament,  the  otlier  for  the  revision 
of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  New  Testament. 

"VII.  Each  Company  shall  elect  its  own  Chairman  and  Recording  Secretary. 

"VIII.  The  British  Companies  will  submit  to  the  American  Companies,  from 
time  to  time,  such  portions  of  their  work  as  have  passed  the  first  revision,  and  the 
American  Companies  will  transmit  their  criticisms  and  suggestions  to  the  British 
Companies  before  the  second  revision. 

"IX.  A  joint  meeting  of  the  American  and  British  Companies  shall  be  held,  if 
possible,  in  London,  before  final  action. 

[*  Dr.  Van  Dyck,  the  translator  of  the  best  Arabic  Version  of  the  Bible,  cannot 
be  expected  to  attend  the  meetings,  but  may  be  occasionally  consulted  on  ques- 
tions involving  a  thorough  knowledge  of  Arabic  and  other  Shemitic  languages.  He 
afterwards  sent  several  written  communications  to  the  O.  T.  Comp.] 


56  DOCUMETsTTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

"  X.  The  American  Committee  to  pay  their  own  expenses,  and  to  have  the  owa' 

ership  and  control  of  the  copyright  of  the  Revised  Version  in  the  United  States  of 
America."* 

A  communication  from  Bishop  Ellicott  to  Dr.  Scliaff,  dated  Oct. 
23,  1871,  was  read,  containing  the  following  resolution  of  the  Brit- 
ish Committee. 

[Now  follows  the  resolution  of  the  British  Committee  communicated  by  Bishop 
Ellicott  in  his  letter  to  Dr.  Schaff  dated  October  23,  1871. — See  p.  50]. 

After  some  other  business  relating  to  future  work,  the  following 
action  was  taken  : — 

"  That  the  Bev.  Dr.  Schaff,  in  conjunction  with  the  officers  of 
this  meeting,  be  requested  to  publish  such  an  account  of  the  for- 
mation of  the  American  Committee  of  Bevisiou,  and  the  work  in- 
trusted to  it,  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  information  of  the 
Christian  public. 

"  Henry  B.  Smith,  Chairman. 
"  Geokge  E.  Day,  Secretary." 

[The  public  meeting  referred  to  in  the  previous  communication  was  held  on  the 
evening  of  the  same  day  (Dec.  7),  in  Calvary  Episcopal  Church,  New  York,  and 
very  largely  attended  by  clergymen  and  intelligent  laymen.  It  was  conducted  by 
the  rector,  Dr.  Washburn,  and  addresses  Avere  made  by  Dean  Howson  and  Dr.  Schaff. 
Full  accounts  were  published  in  the  Christian  Intelligencer,  the  Church  Journal, 
and  other  religious  papers.] 


[Dr.  Scliaff  to  Bishop  Ellicott.] 

Bible  House,  New  Yoek,  Dec.  20,  1871. 
The  Lord  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol. 
My  Dear  Bishop  : 

I  send  you  by  to-day's  mail  a  number  of  copies  of  statement 
concerning  the  formation  of  the  American  Revision  Committee, 
for  distribution  among  British  E^visers.  I  inclose  one  in  this  let- 
ter. 

Dean  Hows(m  has  probably  already  reported  to  you,  having 
been  present  l)y  invitation  at  our  mcetnig.  I  am  happy  to  add 
that  everything  looks  promising.     We  are  now  waiting  anxiously 

[*  The  last  article,  as  far  as  it  refers  to  the  publication  of  the  revision,  was  aban- 
doned by  the  Americnn  Committee  in  the  course  of  negotiations  with  the  British 
Universities,  for  sullicient  reasons,  as  will  bo  shown  below.) 


AMERICxViSr    BIBLE    REVISIOlSr    COMMITTEE.  57 

for  the  Gospel  of  Matthew,  and  for  Genesis,  that  both  Companies 
may  go  to  work  without  much  delay. 

The  gentlemen  composing  the  two  American  Companies  are 
among  the  ablest  biblical  scholars  in  the  United  States,  and  com- 
mand general  confidence. 

Very  truly  and  respectfully  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


[Dr.  Schaff  to  Dean  Stanley.] 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Jan.  2,  1872. 
Tlie  Yery  Rev.  the  Dean  of  Westminster. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

The  request  of  your  letter  of  Oct.  14  has  been  anticipated.  You 
must  have  received  by  this  time  the  inclosed  printed  report  of  the 
organization  of  our  Committee,  with  a  list  of  American  revisers. 

The  list  is  the  same  as  the  one  which  I  originally  proposed,  with 
a  few  necessary  changes.  It  includes  the  best  known  biblical  schol- 
ars of  our  leading  literary  institutions.  The  press  has  indorsed 
the  selection  as  judicious  and  impartial.  I  have  not  heard  of 
a  single  complaint.  We  shall  probably  elect  some  honorary 
members  for  occasional  consultation. 

We  are  now  anxiously  waiting  for  copies  of  Matthew  and  Gene- 
sis revised,  and  shall  go  to  work  as  soon  as  they  arrive.  About 
thirty  copies  will  be  sufficient  for  the  present  revisers.  We  shall 
keep  your  and  our  work  strictly  confidential. 

As  the  Committee  hold  their  meetings  in  my  study  until  perma- 
nent arrangements  can  bo  made,  the  copies  may  all  be  sent  to  me, 
and  I  shall  have  them  distributed.  I  understood  all  along  that 
the  arrangement  made  Avith  you  applies  to  the  Old  Testament 
Company  as  well  as  the  New,  and  that  consequently  we  may  look 
for  copies  of  Genesis  soon.  Is  this  so  ?  I  have  not  conferred  di- 
rectly with  the  Old  Testament  Compaii}''. 

I  proposed  to  my  publishers  (who  are  also  yours*)  to  republish 
in  one  volume  "  Trench,  Ellicott  and  Lightfoot  on  Revision,"  as 
the  best  way  to  introduce  the  subject  before  the  American  pub- 
lic* 

Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


f"  See  letter  to  Dr.  Liglitfoot  below,  p.  58.] 


58  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

[Dr.  SchaiT  to  Dr.  Angus.] 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Jan.  2.  1872. 
Rev.  Dr.  Joseph  Angus,  Regents  Pcwh  College. 
My  Dear  Dk.  Angus  : 

I  bad  just  answered  a  letter  of  Dean  Stanley  when  I  received 
yours  of  Dec.  14.  The  best  reply  I  can  make  is  by  inclosing :  1, 
The  printed  list  of  American  revisers,  with  their  church  connec- 
tion ;  2,  an  account  of  a  very  interesting  public  meeting  in  Dr. 
Washburn's  Episcopal  church  at  which  Dean  Howson  spoke  at 
length  on  Bible  Revision. 

An  Episcopal  divine  of  the  highest  influence  just  told  me  that  I 
could  not  have  made  a  better  selection  from  that  body.  Bishop 
Mcllvaine  and  Bishop  Lee  were  both  invited,  but  modestly  de- 
clined on  the  ground  of  defective  critical  scholarship,  and  they 
approve  the  selection  I  made.  Dean  Howson  was  present  at  our 
meeting  of  organization,  and  seemed  to  be  perfectly  satisfied  Avitli 
the  proceedings. 

I  understood  my  commission  was  to  extend  over  the  Old  Testa- 
ment Company  as  well  as  the  New.  Can  you  not  sanction  the 
matter  as  it  is  ?  The  list  of  revisers  seems  to  give  universal  sat- 
isfaction.    I  have  not  heard  a  word  of  complaint. 

We  have  not  yet  received  a  single  copy  of  the  revision  of  Mat- 
thew or  Genesis,  and  can  do  nothing  till  they  arrive. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[Dr.  ScliafE  to  Dr.  (now  Bishop)  Lightfoot.] 

Bible  House,  New  York,  Dec.  18,  1871. 
Prof.  J.  B.  Lightfoot,  D.D. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 
I  have  advised  my  publishers  (Messrs.  Charles  Scribner,  Arm- 
strong (fe  Company)  to  publisli  in  one  volume  your  own  work  and 
the  works  of  Archbisho})  Trench  and  Bishop  Ellicott  on  the  revis- 
ion of  the  Authorized  English  Version  of  the  Scriptures,  with  a 
brief  introduction  by  myscdf  on  American  co-operation,  which  has 
recently  been  organized  in  this  city,  by  invitation  from  the  British 
Committee,  as  you  will  see  from  the  inclosed  official  statement. 
The  publisher  thinks  the  republication  will  not  pay  expenses — the 
market  being  already  supplied  with  imjiorted  coj^ies — but  in  the 
interest  of  the  cause  of  revision  he  is  inclined  to  undertake  it. 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  59 

Before  proceeding  further  I  desire  to  secure  the  consent  of  the 
esteemed  authors  on  their  own  terms,  and  the  latest  copy  of  their 
work,  with  such  emendations  and  additions  as  they  may  wish  to 
make. 

T  therefore  respectfully  ask  you  to  favor  me  with  such  a  cor- 
rected copy  of  your  work  on  revision  at  your  earliest  convenience 
and  to  transmit  it  by  mail  to  my  address,  Bible  House,  New  York. 
I  shall,  of  course,  send  you  a  copy  of  the  reprint  as  soon  as  it 
leaves  the  press. 

I  embrace  this  opportunity  to  assure  you  of  the  high  consider- 
ation iu  which  I  am  Your  obedient  servant, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[Messrs.  Scribner,  Armstrong  &  Company,  on  reconsideration,  declined  to  pub- 
lish, but  Messrs,  Harper  &  Brotliers  did  publish,  the  revision  treatises  with 
SchEiff's  Introduction,  and  supplied  each  of  the  revisers  with  a  copy.  The 
American  Committee  afterwards  issued  three  separate  editions  of  the  Introduction 
as  a  pro.-pectus  of  the  proposed  revision,  for  gratuitous  distribution  among  per- 
sons asked  to  contribute  towards  the  expenses.  The  book  aided  the  cause  of  re- 
vision among  American  scholars.  This  is  tlie  reason  why  this  letter  is  introduced 
here.  Archbishop  Trench,  Bishop  Lightfoot  and  Bishop  Ellicott  kindly  gave 
their  consent  to  the  republication  of  their  valuable  treatises,  and  Bishop  Light- 
foot  made  some  suggestions  in  the  proof-sheets  of  Dr.  Schaff's  Introduction  which 
were  followed.  Ai'clibishop  Trench's  work  had  been  previously  reprinted  in  the 
United  States.] 

[Bishop  Ellicott  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

65  Portland  Place,  London,  W.,  April  22,  1872. 
Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  assure  you  I  am  very  sorry  that  at  present  you  have  not  been 
able  to  secure  on  your  Company  any  Bishops,  I  still,  from  your 
letter,  have  hopes.  We  at  present  are  in  great  difficulty.  We 
wish  to  be  on  tlie  most  cordial  and  reciprocative  terms  with  you 
in  America,  but  we  have  many  violently  opposed  to  us  here  at  home 
who  seek  every  opportunity  against  us.  It,  therefore,  really  would 
be  imprudent  for  us  to  take  any  final  step  till  your  Committee  is 
so  constituted  as  to  represent  (with  other  Communities)  the  Epis- 
copal Church  distinctly  and  acceptcMy.  The  presence  of  two 
Bishops  or  so  would  at  once  give  the  home-public  of  Church-peo- 
ple the  needed  confidence. 

At  present,  for  the  good  of  the  cause  generally,  I  advise  sus- 
pending matters  till  we  see  you  in  England.  We  hope,  ere  long, 
to  be  connected  with  the  Universities,  and  then  we  shall  be 
stronger  in  public  opinion,  and  can  act  more  fi-eely. 


60  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

At  present  our  suspended  action  is  not  due  to  any  unfriendli- 
ness, but  to  necessary  caution. 

I  write  this  letter  in  my  private  capacity,  and  not  as  the  acting 
chairman  of  our  Compan3\  *  *  *  * 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

C.  J.  Gloucester  and  Bristol. 

[In  consequence  of  the  preceding  letter  of  Bishop  Ellicott,  which  explains  the 
delay,  Dr.  Schaff  resumed  cori'espondence  with  several  American  Bishops,  and 
succeeded  iu  securing  the  valuable  aid  of  the  venerable  Bishop  Lee.  of  the  Dio- 
cese of  Delaware,  who  is  next  to  the  Senior  Bishop  iu  age  and  rank,  and  second  to 
none  of  his  colleagues  on  the  Episcopal  bench  in  sound  learning,  judgment,  and 
weight  of  character.  He  was  one  of  the  most  regular  members  of  the  New  Testa- 
ment Company,  and  attended  almost  every  meeting  till  October,  1880.  Other  Bish- 
ops declined,  not,  however,  from  opposition  to  the  work  of  revision,  but  chiefly 
in  consequence  of  the  refusal  of  the  House  of  Bishops  at  the  Baltimore  General 
Convention  of  1871,  to  have  any  official  connection  with  it.  See  the  action  on 
the  Letter  of  the  Bishop  of  Winchester,  pjj.  48  and  49. 

It  is  proper  that  the  letters  of  the  Bishops,  before  and  after  the  preceding  let- 
ter of  Bishop  Ellicott,  in  reply  to  the  invitation,  should  be  published  here  together, 
beginning  with  that  of  the  late  Bishop  Mcllvaiue,  of  Ohio,  who  was  best  known 
in  England  and  America,  and  first  invited  by  Dr.  Schaff  as  soon  as  he  received 
authority  to  that  effect  from  England.  It  is  not  necessary  to  print  the  letters  of 
invitation.] 

[Bishop  Mcllvaine,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Cincinnati,  May  20,  1871. 
Eev.  and  Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  just  returned  home  after  a  week's  absence,  having  re- 
ceived in  the  hour  of  departure  your  obliging  communication  on 
the  subject  of  revision  of  the  Scripture  version. 

I  am  glad  that  as  the  revision  iu  England  was  set  on  foot  by 
a  Convocation  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  is  proceeding  mainly 
under  such  guidance  and  control,  in  constituting  an  American 
Committee  to  co-operate,  the  work  of  formation  has  been  given 
by  the  British  Committee  to  a  non-Episcopalian^  and  to  you:"  This 
will  greatly  help  not  only  the  all-sidedness  of  the  work,  but  in 
case  it  shall  bo  desirable  to  introduce  it  into  substitution  for  the 
present  version  will  very  materially  prepare  the  way  for  such  result. 

I  am  much  indebted  to  you  for  the  khid  estimate  you  evince  of 
my  revisionary  qualifications,  in  doing  me  so  great  an  honor  as  to 
ask  me  to  be  on  the  American  Committee.  But  I  am  sure  you 
have  overestimated  my  ability.     The  sort  of  life  a  Bishop  must 

[*  Tlie  italics  are  the  bishop's.] 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  61 

have  led,  who  for  almost  forty  years  has  superintended  this  large 
diocese,  is  not  favorable  to  the  sharpness  and  fullness  of  that 
sort  of  learning  and  that  habit  of  mind  which  such  revision  de- 
mands. But  there  is  a  reason  for  my  asking  you  to  excuse  me 
which  admits  of  no  question.  The  state  of  brain-health,  is  such 
that  I  can  undertake  nothing  that  would  require  close  inves- 
tigation, and  especially  critical  stud}-.  It  seems  to  have  be- 
come so  established  that  during  the  few  years,  at  the  very  longest, 
that  I  may  be  continued  here,  I  can  expect  nothing  but,  by 
great  caution  and  quietness,  to  be  enabled  to  do  my  moderate 
and  untasking  work.  I  shall  carefully  mind  your  word  "  covji- 
dentiair 

Tliere  is  a  clergyman  of  my  diocese,  Professor  of  Divinity  in 
the  Theological  Seminary  thereof,  at  Gambler,  an  excellent  He- 
brew and  Greek  scholar,  whose  mind  has  been  much  given  to  in- 
terpretation, who  I  think  would  be  a  very  good  member  of  the 
Committee — the  Eev.  J.  J.  McElhinney,  D.D.,  of  Gambler,  Ohio.* 

Yours  very  respectfully, 

Chas.  p.  McIlvaine. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Schaff. 

[Letter  of  Bishop  Lee,  D.D.,  to  Rev.  Dr.  Washburn.] 

Wilmington,  Del.,  Nov.  10, 1871. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Washburn  : 

I  am  indebted  to  you  for  your  favor  of  7th  inst.,  and  for  the 
kind  interest  you  take  in  the  matter  of  my  consenting  to  act  with 
the  Revision  Committee.  I  agree  with  you  in  the  opinion  that 
our  Church  ought  to  be  represented  in  a  work  of  such  great  im- 
portance. The  point  on  which  I  differ  with  you  is  my  compe- 
tence to  take  this  position.  It  seems  to  me  that  it  Avould  be 
assuming  on  my  part  a  measure  of  scholarship  which  I  know  does 
not  belong  to  me,  and  that  I  should  be  incurring  a  greater  re- 
sponsibility than  I  can  well  meet.  I  should  not  think  it  right  to 
occupy  a  merely  nominal  position  in  so  weighty  an  enterprise, 
and  one  the  result  of  which  will  be  so  anxiously  awaited  by  such 
multitudes  of  Christian  people. 

Then  I  doubt  if  it  would  be  safe  for  me  to  impose  a  heavier 

['"  Considerations  of  convenience  and  economy  induced  the  Committee  not  to 
invite  scholars  living  at  a  great  distance  from  New  Tork,  where  th.e  monthly 
meetings  were  held.] 


62  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

burden  upon  my  eyes  and  head  than  they  are  now  obhged  to 
bear.  Has  the  name  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hare,  of  Philadelphia,  been 
suggested  ?  My  impression  is  that  he  is  one  of  our  best  bibhcal 
scholars,  and  that  he  might  be  willing  to  serve.* 

I  have  an  engagement  in  New  York  next  Thursday  evening, 
and  will  try  to  call  on  you  the  day  following,  but  hardly  think  I 
can  be  led  to  take  a  different  view  on  the  subject. 
I  remain,  very  sincerely,  yours, 

AiiFRED  Lee. 

Rev.  E.  a.  Washburn,  D.D., 

New  York. 


[Dr.  Wasliburn  to  Bishop  Lee.] 

New  York,  Calvary  Rectory, 
103  E.  21st  St.,  11  March,  1872. 
Dear  Bishop  Lee  : 

I  have  been  requested  by  Dr.  Schaff  to  write  again,  and  ask 
your  permission  to  place  your  name  on  the  list  of  the  American 
Committee  of  Revision.  It  was  at  your  kind  suggestion  that  Dr. 
Hare  was  invited  ;  and  this  choice  is  most  satisfying  to  all. 
But  you  will  doubtless  remember  that  you  gave  me,  at  that  time, 
good  reasons  to  think,  should  he  be  made  one  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment Company,  that  you  would  be  willing  to  be  added  to  the 
number. 

It  is  felt  to  be  more  and  more  important  to  secure  the  influ- 
ence, so  far  as  our  Church  is  concerned,  of  one  of  its  most  hon- 
ored heads.  I  may  repeat,  what  I  wrote  before,  that  you  will  be 
asked  to  give  no  more  toil  in  this  Avork  of  supervision  than  you 
choose.  All  know  your  load  of  official  duty.  But  your  charac- 
ter, both  as  a  scholar  and  as  a  Bishop  whom  all  good  men  of  aU 
parties  respect,  ma}^  be  and  will  be  in  this  day  of  discord  most 
valuable  for  the  sacred  work  of  revision.  May  I  not  beg  you,  my 
dear  Bishop,  for  that  reason  above  all ;  for  the  doing  of  a  task  we 
must  hold  to  be  the  highest  and  holiest  in  this  ago  of  Christen- 
dom ;  for  the  union  of  our  own  Church  in  this  common  duty  of  aU 
Protestant  churches,  to  grant  this  request  ? 

[*  Dr.  Hare,  of  the  Episcopal  Divinity  School  in  Philadelphia,  was  invited  at 
this  siif,fgestion,  and  accepted.  He  has  been  connected  with  the  O.  T.  Company 
from  the  beginning.] 


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Let  me  hope,  dear  Bisliop    Lee,  to    receive  your    affirmative ; 
and  believe  me,  with  great  respect, 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

E.  A.  Washburn. 

The  Rt.  Rev.  Alfred  Lee,  D.D., 

Wilmington,  Del. 


[Bishop  Lee  to  Dr.  Wasliburn.] 

Wilmington,  Del.,  March  18,  1872. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Washburn  : 

I  have  given  renewed  consideration  to  the  subject  of  your  let- 
ter of  11th  inst.,  and  appreciate  very  highly  the  kiod  and  favorable 
expressions  it  contains.  I  find  it  painful  to  be  obliged  again  to 
decline  a  request  so  strongly  urged  from  such  a  source. 

But  I  feel  that  to  permit  my  name  to  be  associated  with  this 
great  and  important  work  would  be  taking  a  position  before  the 
Christian  community  to  Avhicli  I  am  not  entitled  and  assuming  a 
wrong  character.  The  very  limited  aquaintance  which  I  made 
with  the  Hebrew  language  in  my  education  for  the  ministry  I 
have  not  been  able  to  maintain,  owing  to  a  difficulty  of  vision  in 
former  years  and  to  the  pressing  duties  of  a  later  period.  I  can- 
not but  think  those  who  serve  on  this  Revision  Committee  ought 
to  be  competent  judges  of  the  emendations  proposed,  whether  of 
text  or  of  translation. 

Respecting  the  success  of  the  enterprise  I  have  little  doubt. 
The  result  of  the  best  scholarship  of  the  Church  in  England  and 
America  will  command  assent,  and  the  opposition  will  speedily 
subside. 

W^ith  sincere  thanks  to  Rev.  Dr.  Schaff  for  his  flattering  pro- 
posal 

I  remain  sincerely  yours, 

Alfred  Lee. 

Rev.  E.  a.  Washburn,  D.D. 


[Dr.  Wasliburu  to  Bishop  Lee.] 

Calvary  Rectory,  March  19,  1872. 
My  Dear  Bishop  Lee  : 

I  must   beg   pardon    for  trespassing  anew  on  your  time  and 
patience,  but  I  omitted  in  my  last  to  add  one  very  weighty  sug- 


64  DOCUMENTATIY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

gestion.  Your  kind  letter  reminds  me  of  it.  It  is  the  wish  of 
Dr.  Schaff  that  you  should  take  part  in  either  division  of  the 
work  you  prefer.  If  the  Greek  be  more  fitted  to  your  taste,  or 
your  line  of  study,  the  New  Testament  Company  will  gladly  wel- 
come 3"our  co-operation. 

I  take  the  liberty  to  write  this,  because  it  meets  your  own  ex- 
pressed objection.  Let  me  still  hope  that  you  will  accept  the 
invitation,  and  believe  me 

Very  cordially  yours, 

E.  A.  Washburn. 

The  Eight  Rev.  Alfred  Lee,  D.D, 

[A  few  weeks  after  the  date  of  this  letter,  in  April  or  IMay,  1873,  Bishop  Lee 
had  a  personal  interview  with  Dr.  Schaff  and  Dr.  Washburn,  and  consented  to 
serve  as  a  member  on  the  New  Testament  Company.] 


[Bishop  Williams,  D.D.,  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

MmDLETOWN,  Feb.  26,  1872. 
My  Deae  Dr.  Schaff  : 

In  some  correspondence  with  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  I  have 
respectfully  declined  to  take  even  the  very  humble  part  I  could 
take  in  the  now  pending  revision  of  the  Bible. 

Let  me  assure  you  it  is  from  no  feeling  that  a  revision  is  not 
needed,  nor  yet  from  any  unwillingness  to  invoke  aid  in  making  it 
from  others  than  members  of  the  Church  of  England  that  I  have 
been  led  to  this  view  of  my  duty.  Quite  other  grounds  than  those 
are  the  ones  1  stand  on,  though  I  need  not  trouble  you  with  any 
details  as  to  their  character. 

With  great  respect  truly  yours, 

J.  Williams. 
The  Rev.  Dr.  Schaff. 

[Dr.  Schaff  to  Bishop  Williams.] 

New  Yoriv,  March  11,  1872. 
My  Dear  Bishop  : 

I  just  received  the  inclosed  letter  from  the  Bishop  of  St.  An- 
drews,^ and  forward  it  to  you  without  delay,  hoping  that  it  may 


["  Dr.  Wordsworth,  a  member  of  the  British  New  Testament  Company,  who 
urged  Bishop  ^Vi]liams  to  co-operate  with  the  American  Committee.] 


AMEPvICAlSr    BIBLE    REVISION"    COMMITTEE.  65 

have  the  desh-ed  effect,  in  which  case  you  will  have  the  kindness 
to  inform  me. 

Believe  me,  with  great  respect  yours, 

Philip  Schaef. 

Right  Rev.  Dr.  Williams,  Bishop  of  Connecticut. 


[Bishop  Williams  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

MiDDLETOWN,  March  15,  1872. 
My  Dear  Dk.  Schaff  : 

I  thank  you  heartily  for  your  courteous  note,  and  for  sendii^g 
me  the  letter  of  the  Bishop  of  St.  Andrews. 

My  views  as  to  my  duty  are  not,  however,  changed,  and  I  must 
still  decline  the  honor  you  offer  me.  Some  day  I  hope  I  may 
have  the  opportunity  to  converse  with  you,  and  I  think  I  can 
convince  you  that  my  reasons  are  sufficient.  With  most  sincere 
respect  I  am 

Very  truly  yours, 

J.  Williams. 


[Bishop  Whittingham,  D.D.,  to  Dr.  Schafl.] 
[Private] 

Baltimore,  Feb.  24, 1872. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  have  already,  some  time  ago,  declined  an  invitation  from  the 
Bishop  of  Winchester  (late  of  Oxford)  to  take  part  in  the  revis- 
ion of  the  Authorized  Version  now  carrying  on  by  the  Convoca- 
tion of  Canterbury,  for  reasons  made  known  to  him — not  arising 
out  of  any  hostility  on  my  part  to  the  revision  itself. 

Of  course,  I  am  unable  to  accept  the  gratifying  and  courteous 
invitation  wliich  you  now  extend  to  me. 

I  am  glad  of  the  opportunity  thus  afforded  me  of  saying  how 
much  pleasure  I  have  in  any  approach  to  the  renewal  of  well- 
remembered  profitable  intercourse  enjoyed  in  former  days,  and 
how  truly  I  am 

Your  faithful  and  affectionate  friend  and  brother, 

W.  B.  Whittingham. 

Rev.  Dk.  Schaff. 
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66  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

[Dr.  Scbaff  to  Bishop  Whittingham.] 

New  York,  May  7,  1872. 

Bishop  Whittingham,  D.D.,  Baltimore. 
My  Dear  Bishop  : 

A  letter  from  Bishop  Ellicotfc  just  received  induces  me  to  solicit 
again  your  valuable  aid  in  the  pending  revision  movement. 

I  succeeded  in  securing  Bishop  Lee,  who,  at  first,  likewise  de- 
clined, for  the  New  Testament  Company,  but  I  have  no  Bishop 
for  the  Old  Testament  Company.  It  is  of  very  great  importance 
for  the  work  both  in  this  country  and  in  Great  Britain  that  the 
Episcopate  should  be  well  represented.  I  know  of  no  one  whom 
for  various  reasons  I  would  rather  have  associated  with  the  work 
than  yourself.  I  respectfully  entreat  you,  therefore,  to  give  us 
the  benefit  of  your  name  and  influence.  We  will  relieve  you  of 
labor  as  much  as  possible  and  send  you  the  proofs  for  your 
inspection. 

If  you  join  us  we  shall  be  able  to  move  along  harmoniously  and 
satisfactorily.  In  every  other  respect  things  are  ready.  One 
more  Bishop,  and  the  composition  of  the  two  Companies  will  be 
complete  and  unassailable.  We  must  fall  in  with  this  oecumenical 
revision  movement  as  matters  now  stand,  or  run  the  risk  of  an  in- 
definite multiplication  of  sectarian  versions,  as  there  are  already 
a  Baptist  and  a  Unitarian  Version. 

I  expect  to  sail  for  England  next  Saturday,  and  to  confer  in  per- 
son with  the  revisers.  Please  answer  immediately.  If  you  can- 
not before  I  depart,  please  write  to  my  colleague.  Prof.  Henry  B. 

Smith,  108  East  25th  Street. 

Most  respectfully  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


[Bishop  Whittingham  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Baltimore,  May  8,  1 872. 
Bev.  Dr.  Schaff. 

My  Dear  Brother  : 
My  position  in  regard  of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  English 
Bible  was  not  taken  without  much  reflection  and  some  conference 
with  others.  However  unwilling  to  decline  any  proposition  ur- 
gently addressed  by  one  whom  I  respect  so  veiy  highly,  I  must, 
therefore,  adhere  to  my  resolution  to  withhold  myself  from  partici- 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    EEVISION    COMMITTEE.  67 

pation  in  the  work,  of  which  I  have  not  yet  seen  any  occasion  to 
change  my  views. 

Heartily  wishing  you  much  usefulness  and  enjoyment  in  your 
contemplated  European  trip,  I  am  with  very  hearty  affectionate 
respect 

Tour  friend  and  brother, 

W.  K.  Whittingham. 


[Circular  letter  of  Dr.  Schaff  to  Prof.  Tbos.  J.  Conant,  D.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  T. ; 
Prof.  Wm.  Henry  Greeu,  D.D.,  Princeton,  N.  J.  ;  Prof.  Geo.  Einlen  Hare,  D.D., 
Pliiladelpliia,  Pa.  ;  Rev.  Theodore  D.  Woolsey,  D.D.,  LL.  D.,  New  Haven,  Conn.  ; 
and  other  members  of  the  Committee.] 

New  York,  March  16,  1872. 
Deae  Sir: 

I  am  happy  to  inform  you  that  the  selection  of  biblical  scholars 
who  are  to  constitute  the  American  Committee  of  Revision  meets 
the  entire  approval  of  the  British  Committee  as  far  as  it  goes. 
At  the  same  time  I  am  requested  by  several  members  of  that 
Committee  to  select  and  invite  three  or  four  more  members  with 
a  view  to  balance  and  satisfy  all  denominational  interests  and 
wishes,  and  to  report  as  soon  as  possible,  that  the  work  may  then 
proceed  without  obstruction.  The  Church  of  England  members 
are  especially  desirous  that  one  or  two  Bishops  should  join  the 
Committee.  It  is  not  my  fault  if  this  has  not  been  done  before, 
as  my  correspondence  will  prove.  But  I  will  make  another 
effort. 

Having  passed  the  responsibility  of  enlarging  the  Committee 
into  the  hands  of  the  Committee  itself,  I  do  not  wish  to  carry 
out  the  request  of  the  British  Committee  without  the  consent 
and  authority  of  the  American  Committee,  and  as  I  cannot  expect 
them  to  come  to  New  York  simply  for  this  purpose,  I  take  this 
mode  of  asking  you  and  the  other  members,  whether,  in  your 
opinion,  I  shall  proceed  without  delay  to  select  and  invite  three 
or  four  additional  members  of  the  Revision  Committee,  and.  if 
they  accept,  to  notify  them  of  the  next  meeting  of  the  Committee. 

Hoping  to  hear  from  you  at  your  earhest  convenience, 

I  am  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[Affirmative  replies  were  received  from  all  the  members  addressed.] 


68  DOCUMENTARY   HISTORY    OF    THE 

[Dr.  Angus  to  Dr.  Sehaff.] 

College,  Begent's  Park,  22  April,  1872. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

Your  note  has  just  reached  me,  and  I  send  at  once  replies  to 
your  queries.     I  hope  you  will  be  able  to  read  them. 

I  had  hoped  that  before  this  our  first  revision  would  have 
reached  you.  Bishop  Wordsworth  has  had  Bishop  AVilliams's 
reply,  which  is  friendly,  but  he  declines  serving,  on  grounds  of 
etiquette,  i.e.,  he  does  not  like  to  serve  when  his  brethren  have 
decided  negatively.  (The  mistake  was  in  asking  them  as  a 
hody.) 

We  should  at  our  last  meeting  (just  held)  have  resolved  to  send 
you  the  New  Testament  revision ;  but  Bishop  Ellicott  said  you 
were  expecting  to  get  a  Bishop  to  join,  and  so  nothing  was  done. 
If  this  refers,  as  I  gather,  to  Bishop  Lee,  I  think  it  Avould  be  well 
to  press  him  to  join.  It  is  desirable  to  take  away  all  excuse  for 
not  co-operating. 

This  delay,  and  the  hope  of  having  everything  satisfactory,  have 
made  the  Committee  of  Convocation  slow  to  bring  the  matter  be- 
fore the  Old  Testament  Company.  It  is  only  now  formally  before 
them.  I  hope,  however,  all  will  go  well.  Time  and  patience  are 
needed  when  great  bodies  have  to  move.  If  Bishop  Lee  join  the 
Old  Testament  Company  that  will  relieve  the  difficulty :  so  specially 
would  one  Bishop  on  each. 

I  shall  be  glad  to  report  Prof.  Warren's  appointment :  that  and 
Dr.  Kendrick's  will  do  good. 

We  shall  be  glad  to  see  you  when  on  our  side.  We  had  our 
united  gathering  of  the  two  Companies  and  other  friends  last 
week.  Had  I  known  of  your  coming  I  would  have  moved  to  put 
it  off  till  then.  It  is  only  rarely  that  the  meetings  of  the  two 
Companies  synchronize.     In  great  haste  to  catch  the  mail. 

Yours  sincerely, 
'      J.  A. 

[Dr.  Schaff  to  Dr.  Angus.] 

New  York,  April  12,  1872. 
Prof.  Jos.  Angus,  D.D.,  London. 

My  Dear  Sir  : 
I  am  happy  to  inform  you  that  Bishop  Leo,  of  Delaware,  with 
whom  I  had  a  long  interview  yesterday,  has   consented  to  join 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISIOlSr    COMMUTE  10.  69 

the  New  Testament  Company  of  our  Revision  Committee.  This 
breaks  the  force  of  opposition  from  that  quarter,  and  will  satisfy, 
I  hope,  the  Churchmen  of  England.  Bishop  Lee  is  one  of  the 
most  worthy  and  influential  of  the  American  Bishops,  and  his 
judgment  has  great  weight. 

I  learnt  from  Bishop  Lee  that  the  House  of  Bishops,  at  their 
late  session  in  Baltimore,  declined  to  take  any  action  on  a  letter 
from  the  Bishop  of  Winchester  inviting  their  co-operation  in  the 
work  of  revision.  This  non-action,  in  connection  with  the  open 
opposition  of  a  few  Bishops,  has  created  the  false  impression  that 
the  Bishops  as  a  body  were  unfi-iendly  to  the  movement.  He 
thinks  that  the  scruples  of  some  will  be  gradually  overcome, 
especially  if  the  Convocation  of  York  should  fall  in. 

I  have  not  received  as  yet  any  material  to  work  upon  from 
England,  and  hence  we  are  at  a  standstill.  I  may  have  the 
pleasure  of  seeing  you  next  June  or  July. 

Yours  truly, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[Dr.  SchaflE  to  Bishop  EUicott.] 

New  York,  May  7,  1872. 
My  Dear  Bishop  : 

Your  favor  of  April  22d  has  just  come  to  hand.  I  appreciate 
your*  motives  for  caution  and  delay. 

You  will  feel  considerably  relieved  if  I  inform  you  that  Bishop 
Lee,  of  Delaware,  has  at  last  consented  to  join  the  New  Testament 
Company  of  revisers.  He  is  an  accomplished  scholar  and  an 
admirable  Christian  gentleman.  He  is  very  sound  and  judicious, 
and  one  of  the  most  influential  as  well  as  oldest  members  of  the 
House  of  Bishops. 

From  the  inclosed  extracts  of  letters  of  Bishops  Whittingham, 
WilHams,  and  Mcllvaine  to  me,  you  will  be  pleased  to  see  their 
kind  feeling  towards  the  movement.  Wliat  induced  them  to  de- 
cline was  partly  etiquette  and  partly  modesty. 

I  shall  make  another  effort  to  secure  Bisliop  Whittingham  for 
the  O.  T,  Company.  He  is  a  good  scholar  and  would  best  rep- 
resent the  High  Churchmen  among  his  brethren.  If  he  declines 
again,  I  shall  try  Bishop  Huntington  of  Central  New  York.* 

*  [Bishop  Huntington  was  invited  tlirough  his  friend,  Prof.  Henry  B.  Smith, 
D.D.,  during  Dr.  SchafE's  absence  in  England,  but  declined.] 


70  DOCUMENT AEY    IIISTOEY    OF   THE 

I  expect  to  sail  in  the  City  of  Brooklyn  next  Saturday  and  to 
proceed  first  to  Scotland.  If  you  will  kindly  inform  me  (in  care 
of  Mr.  T.  Clark,  publisher,  Edinburgh)  when  and  where  I  can  best 
see  you  during  the  early  part  of  June,  I  shall  be  happy  to  confer 
with  you  in  person  on  this  and  other  matters. 

With  great  respect  yours, 

Philip  Schatf. 
The  Lord  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bhistoi.. 

[During  Ms  visit  to  London,  in  tlie  summer  of  1872,  Dr.  Schaff  met  tlie  re- 
visers again  in  tlie  Jerusalem  Cliamber,  and  laid  before  them  tlie  results  of  liis 
labors  in  the  organization  of  the  Committee.  He  was  assured  by  them  that  tlie 
result  was  satisfactory,  and  that  material  would  now  be  forwarded  to  him  for  the 
work  of  the  American  revisers.  When  at  a  previous  private  interview  he  asked 
Dean  Stanley  whether  one  bishop  was  sufficient,  he  promptly  replied  :  "  One 
bishop  is  quite  enough."] 


[Dean  Stanley  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Deanery,  Westminster,  July  17,  1882. 
IVIy  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

....  I  sincerely  trust  that  you  wHl  not  think  of  retiring. 
You  deserve,  in  my  opinion,  much  gratitude  and  respect  for  the 
patience  and  forbearance  with  which  you  have  borne  our  tedious 
negotiations,  and  I  think  that  you  ought  to  have  whatever  credit 
there  may  be  in  carrying  on  to  the  end  what  I  trust  will  be 
entirely  successful. 

I  have  uo  doubt  that  all  will  now  go  smooth,  and  by  the  time 
you  return  [from  the  Continent]  I  trust  that  official  intelligence 
will  reach  you  to  the  same  efi'ect.  .    .   . 

Yours  sincerely, 

A.  P.  Stanlfy. 


[Circular  Letter  of  Dr.  Schaff  to  the  American  Revisers.] 

New  York,  Sept.  13,  1872. 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  inform  you  that,  during  a  recent  visit  to 
England,  I  have  succeeded  in  completing  the  arrangements  for 
co-operation  Avith  the  British  Committee  of  Bible  Revision,  and 
that  confidential  copies  of  the  revised  version  of  several  books 
of  the  Old  and  New  Testaments  have  been  forwarded  to  mo  for 
the  use  of  the  members  of  the  American  Committee. 


AMEEICAISr    BIBLE    REVISIOISr    COMMITTEE.  71 

Tou  are  therefore  requested  to  attend  a  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can revisers  to  be  held  on  Friday,  Oct.  4,  1872,  at  2  p.m.,  in  my 
study  in  the  Bible  House,  for  the  purpose  of  completing  the 
organization  and  commencing  actual  work.  It  is  especially  im- 
portant that  this  meeting  should  be  fully  attended. 

Respectfully  yours, 

Philip  Schatf. 

Rev.  Dr.  Woolsey,  and  otheks. 


MEETING   OF   THE   COMMITTEE, 
OCTOBEK    4, 1872. 

The  Organisation  ComjAeted. 
[From  the   Minutes  of  tlie    Am.    Com.] 

New  York,  Oct.  4,  1872. 

The  American  Committee  on  the  Revision  of  the  English  Au- 
thorized Version  of  the  Bible  met  this  day,  at  2  p  m.,  at  the  study 
of  Dr.  Scliaff,  No.  40  Bible  House,*  to  complete  their  organiza- 
tion and  make  arrangements  for  the  work  before  them. 

Present :  Drs.  DeWitfc,  Green,  Hare,  Strong,  Lee,  Woolsey, 
Abbot,  Kendrick,  Thayer,  Schaff,  and  Day. 

Rev.  Dr.  Woolsey  was  appointed  temporary  Chairman.  After 
prayer  by  Bishop  Lee,  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read 
and  approved. 

Prof.  Charles  Short  and  Prof.  James  Hadley  were  unanimously 
elected,  and  took  their  seats  as  members  of  the  Committee. 

Letters,  or  messages,  were  received  from  Profs.  Kvauth,  Lewis, 
Smith,  Hackett,  Warren,  and  Riddle,  expressing  their  regret  at 
not  being  able  to  be  present,  with  the  assurance  of  their  con- 
tinued readiness  to  co-operate. 

Printed  copies  of  the  revision  by  the  British  Companies,  so  far 
as  completed,  viz.,  in  the  O.  T.  of  Genesis,  Exodus,  and  Leviticus ; 
in  the  N.  T.  of  the  Gospels  of  Matthew,  Mark,  and  Luke,  were 
then  distributed  to  the  members  of  the  American  Companies,  with 

[*  The  study  of  Dr.  SchafE  was  afterwards  removed  to  No.  43  in  the  same 
building-,  and  this  and  the  adjoining  room,  No.  44,  were  used  by  tlie  two  Compa- 
nies of  American  revisers  till  the  close  of  their  worlv.  It  is  proper  to  remark 
that  the  American  Bible  Society,  which  owns  the  Bible  House,  but  rents  out 
many  rooms  to  individuals  and  religious  societies,  is  in  no  way  responsible  for 
the  revision,  and  is,  by  its  present  constitution,  restricted  to  King  James's  Ver- 
sion.! 


72  DOCUMENT  A  KY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

the  express  understanding  that  they  should  be  regarded  and  kept 

as  strictly  confidential. 

After  a  brief  statement  by  Dr.  Schaff  in  regard  to  the  present 

state  of  the  work  of  revision  in  Great  Britain,  and  the  desire  of 

the  British  Committee  to  come  into  immediate  connection  with 

the  American  Committee,  the  following  officers  were  appointed 

by  ballot : 

Eev.  Dr.  Schaff,  President. 

Prof.  George  E.  Day,  Secretary. 

Prof.  Charles  Short,  Treasurer. 

It  was  then  voted  : 

1.  That  the  two  Companies  hold  their  meetings  in  New  York. 

2.  That  the  officers  of  the  Committee  be  authorized  to  secure 
the  room  No.  42  in  the  Bible  House  for  one  year  or  less,  and  to 
purciiase  the  necessary  furniture. 

3.  That  Profs.  Short,  Day,  and  Green  be  a  Committee  to  report 
upon  the  means  of  obtaining  the  necessary  funds  for  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  work  of  the  Committee. 

The  two  Companies  then  separated  for  the  purpose  of  organiza- 
tion. On  meeting  again  the  O.  T.  Company  reported  that  they 
had  made  choice  of  Prof.  William  Henry  Green,  Chairman ;  and 
Prof.  George  E.  Day,  Secretary.  The  N.  T.  Company  reported 
that  they  had  elected  Rev.  Dr.  Woolsey,  Chairman;  and  Prof. 
Charles  Short,  Secretary." 

The  Committee  then  adjourned  to  meet  at  No.  40  Bible  House 
on  Saturday,  Nov.  2,  at  9  a.m. 

Geokge  E.  Day, 

Secretary. 

[Dr.  Scbaff  to  Bishop  Ellicott.] 

New  York,  Oct.  12,  1872. 
My  Lord  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  inform  you  that  the  American  Committee 
of  revisers  is  now  fully  organized,  and  lias  entered  upon  its  work. 

A  meeting  of  the  revisers  was  held  in  my  &tudy  on  the  4tli  of 
October.  Bishop  Lee  opened  the  meeting  with  jDraycr.  Most  of 
the  members  Avere  present ;  the  rest  sent  letters  asking  to  be  ex- 

[*  Afterwards  Prof.  Tliayer  was  also  elected  Secretary  of  the  N.  T.  Company 
and  relieved  Prof.  Short  of  a  part  of  the  work,  whicli  became  very  laborious  as 
the  revision  proceeded.] 


AMERICAIST    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  73 

cused  for  unavoidable  absence,  but  expressing  deep  interest  in 
the  work,  and  their  readiness  to  co-operate. 

I  distributed  among  the  members  present  copies  of  the  revised 
version  of  Genesis,  Exodus,  and  Leviticus,  and  of  the  Gospels  of 
St.  Matthew,  St.  Mark,  and  St.  Luke,  which  were  intrusted  to  me 
by  the  British  Committee  for  the  exclusive  use  of  the  American 
Committee.  The  confidential  character  of  these  documents  will 
be  sacredly  respected. 

The  organization  was  then  completed  by  the  unanimous  elec- 
tion of  the  undersigned  as  President ;  of  Prof.  George  E.  Day, 
D.D.,  of  Yale  College,  New  Haven,  as  Corresponding  Secretary ; 
and  of  Prof.  Charles  Short,  LL.D.,  of  Columbia  College,  New 
York,  as  Treasurer. 

The  Company  for  the  revision  of  the  Old  Testament  elected 
Prof.  "W.  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  of  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton,  its  Cli airman,  and  Prof.  Day  Eecording  Secretary. 
The  officers  of  the  New  Testament  Company  are  the  Eev.  Ex- 
President  Theodore  Woolsey,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  of  New  Haven, 
Chairman,  and  Prof,  Charles  Short,  Recording  Secretary, 

Both  Companies  agreed  to  hold  periodical  meetings  every 
month.  The  next  meeting  will  begin  Nov,  2,  We  have  rented 
and  furnished  a  room  in  the  Bible  House,  and  shall  soon  take 
measures  to  provide  for  the  necessary  expenses. 

As  President  of  the  whole  Committee  it  is  my  duty  according 
to  Art,  III,  of  our  constitution  to  conduct  the  official  correspond- 
ence with  the  British  revisers. 

It  is  in  discharge  of  this  duty  that  I  write  this  letter, 

I  look  forward  with  great  pleasure  to  a  continuance  of  the 
correspondence  with  our  brethren  in  England, 

I  may  add  that  our  recent  meeting  was  a  very  harmonious  one, 
and  gives  good  promise  of  earnest  and  vigorous  co-operation  wdth 
the  British  Committee,  "VVe  apprehend  no  material  difference, 
and  feel  confident  that  so  noble  and  holy  a  work,  which  engages 
the  united  labors  and  prayers  of  Christian  scholars  from  all 
branches  of  Anglo-Saxon  Christendom,  will  be  crowned  with  the 
blessing  of  the  Divine  Author  of  the  Scriptures, 

I  assure  you  and  the  members  of  the  Company  you  represent 
of  my  profound  regard  and  best  wishes  and  prayers  for  the  suc- 
cess of  your  work.  Truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 
The  LoKD  BisHCP  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol, 
Chairman  of  tlie  New  Test.  Comp.  of  Revision. 


74  DOCUMENTARY    IIISTOKY    OF    THE 

[Bishop  EUicott  to  Dr.  ScliafF.] 

Gloucester,  Not.  21,  1872. 
Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  am  requested  by  the  New  Testament  Company  to  thank  you 
for  your  kind  note  and  to  express  their  sincere  pleasure  at  hear- 
ing so  excellent  an  account  of  your  progress. 

The  Company  present  their  kind  compliments  and  best  Avishes 
to  the  distinguished  scholars  over  whom  you  preside. 

Very  faithfully  yours, 
C.  J.  Gloucester  and  Bristol. 


[Bishop  Ellicott  to  Dr.  ScLaff.] 

Gloucester,  Dec.  24,  1872. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff: 

My  friends  forming  our  Company  desire  me  to  thank  you  kindlj 
for  your  note,  and  rejoice  in  your  progress. 

I  am  further  to  tell  you  that  we  did  send  two  extra  copies.     If 
they  did  not  reach  you,  please  kindly  send  word. 

I  am  also  to  mention  that  we  do  not  issue  copies  to  any  save 
actual  members  (working)  of  the  Company. "'''  .     .     . 
With  kind  regards, 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

C.  J.  Gloucester  and  Bristol. 


LIST   OF   THE   AMERICAN  REVISION   COMMITTEE. 

As  finally  constituted. 

This  list  includes  those  members  who  were  subsequently  elected 
by  the  Committee  themselves  to  fill  vacancies. 

GENERAL  OFFICERS  OF  THE   COMMITTEE  : 

Philip  Schaff,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  President. 
George  E.  Day,  D.D.,  Secretary. 

(1)  Old  Testament  Comixiny : 
Professor  Wm.  Henry  Green,  D.D.,  LL.D.  (Chairman),  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  Princeton,  N.  J. 

[*  This  refusal  made  void  the  proposed  election  of  Honorary  Members  from 
the  more  distant  sections  of  the  country.] 


AMEEICATT    BIBLE    REVISIOlsr    COMMITTEE.  75 

Professor  George  E.  Day  D.D.  (Secretary),  Divinity  School  of 
Tale  College,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Professor  Chaeles  A.  Aiken,  D.D.,  Theological  Seminary, 
Princeton,  N.  J. 

The  Eev.  T.  W.  Chambers,  D.D.,  Collegiate  Pteformed  Dutch 
Church,  New  York. 

Professor  Thomas  J.  Conant,  D.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Professor  John  DeWitt,  D.D.,  Theological  Seminary,  New 
Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Professor  George  Emlen  Hare,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Divinity  School, 
Philadelphia. 

Professor  Charles  P.  Krauth,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Vice-Provost  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  Philadelphia. 

Professor  Tayler  Lewis,  LL.D.,  Union  College,  Schenectady, 
N.  Y. 

Professor  Charles  M.  Mead,  D.D.,  Theological  Seminary,  An- 
dover,  Mass. 

Professor  Howard  Osgood,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Theological  Seminary, 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Professor  Joseph  Packard,  D.D.,  Theological  Seminary,  Alex- 
andria, Va. 

Professor  Calvin  E.  Stowe,  D.D.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

Professor  James  Strong,  S.  T.  D.,  Theological  Seminary,  Madi- 
son, N.  J. 

Professor  C.  A.  Van  Dyck,  D.D.,  M.D.,  Beirat,  Syria  (Advisory 
Member  on  questions  of  Arabic). 

Note. — The  American  Old  Testament  Company  lost  by  death  Prof.  Tayleb 
Lewis,  d.  1877;  Dr.  Krauth,  Philadelphia,  d.  Jan.  2,  1883;  aud  Dr.  Stowe,  by 
resignation. 

(2)    New  Testament  Company. 

Ex-President  T.  D.  Woolsey,  D.D.,  LL.D.  (Chairman),  New 
Haven,  Conn. 

Professor  J.  Henry  Thayer,  D.D.  (Secretary),  Theological  Sem- 
inary, Andover,  Mass. 

Professor  Ezra  Abbot,  D.D.,  LL.D,  Divinity  School,  Harvard 
University,  Cambridge,  Mass. 

The  Eev.  J.  K.  Burr,  D.D.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

President  Thomas  Chase,  LL.D.,  Haverford  College,  Pa. 

Chancellor  Howard  Crosby,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  New  York. 


76  DOCUMENTARY    HISTOKY    OF    THE 

Professor  Timothy  Dwight,  D.D.,  Divinity  School  of  Yale  Col- 
lege, New  Ilaven,  Conn. 

Professor  James  Hadley,  LL.D.,  Yale  College,  New  Haven, 
Conn. 

Professor  HoRATio  B.  Hackett,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Theological  Sem- 
inary, Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Professor  Charles  Hodge,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Theological  Seminary, 
Princeton,  N.  J. 

Professor  A.  C.  Kendrick,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  University  of  Eoch- 
ester,  N.  Y. 

The  Eight  Eev.  Alfred  Lee,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  the  Diocese  of 
Delaware. 

Professor  Matthew  B.  Riddle,  D.D.,  Theological  Seminary, 
Hartford,  Conn. 

Professor  Philip  Schaff,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Union  Theological  Sem- 
inary, New  York. 

Professor  Charles  Short,  LL.D.  (Secretary),  Columbia  Col- 
lege, New  York. 

Professor  Henry  Boynton  Smith,  D.D,,  LL.D.,  Union  Theolog- 
ical Seminary,  New  York. 

The  Rev.  E.  A.  Washburn,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Calvary  Church,  New 
York. 

Note. — The  American  New  Testament  Company  lost  by  death  Prof.  James 
Hadley  (who  attended  the  first  session),  d.  1872  ;  Dr.  Henry  Boyntox  Smith 
(who  attended  one  session,  and  resigned  from  ill  health),  d.  1877  ;  Dr.  HORATiO 
B.  Hackett,  d.  1876  ;  Dr.  Charles  Hodge  (who  never  attended  the  meetings, 
but  corresponded  with  the  Committee),  d.  1878  ;  Rev.  Dr.  Washburn,  d.  Feb.  2, 
1881  (after  the  completion  of  the  N.  T.  Revision);  and  Rev.  Dr.  Buuii,  d.  April  34, 
18S2.  Dr.  G.  R.  Crooks  and  Dr.  W.  F.  Warrex,  who  accepted  the  original 
appointment,  found  it  impossible  to  attend  any  meetings  and  resigned. 

A  number  of  Bishops  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church,  and  professors  of 
sacred  learning,  who  had  been  invited  to  join  the  American  Committee;  at  its  first 
organization  in  1871,  declined,  from  v/ant  of  time  or  other  reasons,  but  expressed 
interest  in  the  work,  and  confidence  in  its  success.  Among  these  may  be  men- 
tioned Bishops  Mcllvaine,  Whittingham,  and  Williams,  Dr.  Whedon  (Methodist), 
Dr.  Nevin  (Reformed),  Dr.  Shedd  (Presbyterian). 

MEMBEES  OF  THE  FINANCE  COMMITTEE 

Co-operating  with  the  American  Bible  Eevision  Committee, 

This  Committee  was  appointed  in  May,  1875,  at  the  suggestion 
of  several  laymen,  with  a  view  to  relieve  the  revisers  of  financial 
care  and  responsibility.  The  list  includes  all  the  members  who 
have  at  any  time  been  connected  with  the  Committee. 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  77 

Hon.  Nathan  Bishop,  LL.D.,  Chairman,*  New  York. 

Andrew  L.  Taylou,  Treasurer,  " 

Eev.  Wm.  Adams,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  " 

Rev.  Tlios.  D.  Anderson,  D.D.,  " 

A.  S.  Barnes,  " 

Alexander  Brown,  Pliiladelpliia. 

James  M.  Brown,  New  York. 

William  A.  Cauldwell,  New  York. 

Hon.  Wm.  E.  Dodge,  " 

Rev.  H.  Dyer,  D.D.,  " 

John  Elliott,  " 

Hon.  E.  L.  Faucher,  LL.D.,  New  York. 

Prof.  Wm.  Gammell,  LL.D.,  Providence,  E.  I. 

John  C.  Havemejer,  Yonkers,  N.  Y. 

Morris  K.  Jesup,  New  York. 

Francis  T.  King,  Baltimore. 

Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  New  York. 

Howard  Potter,  " 

ElHott  F.  Shepard,  Esq. 

John  Sloane,  " 

Roswell  Smith,t 

Rev.  Richard  S.  Storrs,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  Brooklyn. 

Charles  Tracy,  Esq.,  New  York. 

John  B.  Trevor,  " 

yjex.  Van  Rensselaer  (d.  May,  1878). 

S.  D.  Warren,  Boston. 

Norman  White,  New  York. 

F.  S.  Winston,  " 

*  After  the  death  of  Dr.  Bisliop  in  Aug.,  1880,  Judge  Fancher,  of  New  York, 
was  elected  in  Lis  place. 
f  Resigned,  March,  1881. 


i^att  Secontr. 


COEEESPONDENCE   OF   THE  AMEEICAN  COMMITTEE 
WITH   THE   ENGLISH   COMPANIES. 


CORRESPONDENCE   OF    THE   AMERICAN   COM- 
MITTEE  WITH  THE  ENGLISH  COMPANIES. 


FIPvST  ACTION  OP  THE  AMERICAN  COMMITTEE. 

[From  the  Minutes,  pp.  26,  27.] 

New  Yoek,  Saturday,  May  31,  1873. 

The  subject  of  the  practical  relations  of  the  American  revisers 
to  the  Euglish  was  brought  up,  especially  as  respects  the  influence 
of  our  suggestions  upon  their  final  action.  A  general  and 
decided  expression  of  opinion  Avas  made,  resulting  in  a  vote  of 
instructions  to  Dr.  Schaff,  as  follows  : 

"  That  Dr.  Schaff,  on  his  approaching  visit  to  England  confer 
with  our  English  brethren,  especially  in  reference  to  the  follow- 
ing points :  What  weight  shall  the  opinions  of  the  American 
Committee  have  in  determining  the  revision ;  and  that  he  be 
authorized  to  intimate  that  wo  expect  to  have  a  positive  and  well- 
defined  weight  in  the  decision  :  and  farther  (if  he  shall  find  it 
necessary),  that  he  request  them  to  appoint  those  of  then-  number 
who  may  come  to  America  in  October  to  act  with  jpower  as  a 
committee  of  conference  with  us  on  this  subject." 

Adjourned  to  meet  in  New  Haven,  July  8,  1873,  at  7.30  P.  M. 

J.  H.  Thayer,  Sec.  pro  terr 
Attest : 

George  E.  Day, 
Sec. 


RESPONSE  OF  THE  BRITISH  COMPANIES. 

1.   Of  the  Old  Testament  Coinpcmy. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  O.  T.  Company  of  revisers,  held  in  the 
Chapter  Library,  Westminster,  on  Thursday,  July  17,  1873,  the 
following  resolution  was  passed  : 


6 


82  DOCUMENTAEY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

"  That  this  Company  have  heard,  with  great  pleasure,  from 
Dr.  Schaff,  of  the  cordiahty  with  which  the  American  revisers 
have  entered  into  the  work  and  of  the  progress  they  have  ah-eady 
made. 

"  That  they  are  prepared  to  give  the  most  careful  consideration 
to  any  suggestions  that  may  be  made  to  them  by  the  American 
Committee,  but  are  of  opinion  that  by  the  original  constitution, 
as  well  as  by  the  terms  of  their  agreement  with  the  University 
Presses,  the}^  have  not  the  power  to  admit  to  a  share  in  the  right 
of  voting  any  but  the  members  of  their  own  Company. 

"That  it  is  their  desire  to  recognize,  in  the  fullest  Avay  compat- 
ible with  this  limitation,  the  labors  of  the  American  Committee, 
but  that  they  feel  it  would  be  premature,  in  the  present  stage  of 
their  proceedings,  to  settle  the  details  of  an  arrangement  by  which 
that  recognition  could  be  adequately  secured." 

2.   Of  the  New  Testament  Company. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  New  Testament  Company,  held  in  the 
Jerusalem  Chamber,  on  Wednesda}^,  July  16, 1873,  it  was  resolved 
unanimously : 

"  That  the  New  Testament  Company  learn  with  lively  satis- 
faction, from  Dr.  Schaff,  that  the  American  Bible  Kevision  Com- 
mittee are  making  such  favorable  progress,  and  that  the  results 
arrived  at  by  the  two  bodies  are  so  much  in  accordance.  Tlie 
N.  T.  Company  are  glad  to  have  this  opportunity  of  repeating 
the  assurance  tliat  they  will  attach  gi-eat  weiglit  and  importance 
to  all  the  suggestions  of  the  American  Committee,  and  in  each 
case  take  into  account  the  unanimity  or  preponderance  of  opinion 
with  which  the  suggestions  have  been  made  :  but  they  are  pre- 
cluded by  the  fundamental  rules  of  their  constitution,  as  well  as 
by  the  terms  of  their  agreement  with  the  University  Presses,  from 
admitting  any  persons,  not  members  of  tlicir  body,  to  take  part 
in  their  decisions. 

"  The  N.  T.  Company  desire,  finally,  to  express  their  confident 
hope  that  no  ultimate  difficulties  will  bo  found  in  adjusting  any 
points  in  which  the  American  and  English  Companies  may 
differ  in  their  respective  decisions." 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    KEVISION    COMMITTEE.  83 

ACTION   OF   THE    AMEEICAN    COMMITTEE    ON    THE 
PKECEDING  EESOLUTIONS. 

(From  the  Minutes,  p.  33  seq.) 

New  Yorjv,  Sept.  30,  1873. 

.  .  .  Dr.  Schaff,  having  returned  from  Earope,  but  not  being 
able,  on  account  of  other  engagements,  to  be  present,  sent  the  fol- 
lowing resolutions  of  the  two  British  Companies — that  of  the  0.  T. 
Company  from  the  Bishop  of  Ely ;  that  of  the  N.  T.  Company 
through  Bishop  Ellicott, — to  the  effect  that,  while  purposing  to 
give  careful  attention  to  any  suggestions  made  by  the  American 
Committee,  they  do  not  regard  themselves  as  able  to  admit  to  the 
right  of  voting  any  but  the  members  residing  in  Great  Britain. 
[Now  follow  the  resolutions,  printed  above.] 

After  remarks  by  several  members  of  the  Committee,  Drs. 
Crosby,  Hare,  Aiken,  Washburn,  and  Day  were  requested  to  pre- 
pare a  paper  expressive  of  our  views,  to  be  presented  to-morrow 
morning  at  9  o'clock.     Adjourned  to  that  hour. 

Wednesday,  Oct.  1,  1873. 

Met  according  to  adjournment  at  9  A.  m.  Dr.  Schaff  in  the 
chair.  Prayer  was  offered  by  Dr.  Stowe.  The  paper  prepared 
by  the  committee  apj^ointed  yesterday  was  presented  and  dis- 
cussed, and  a  verbal  statement  was  made  by  Dr.  Schaff  of  his 
conference  with  the  British  Committee. 

At  this  point  the  discussion  was  siispended  in  order  to  allow  Dr. 
Dorner,  Professor  in  the  University  of  Berlin,  now  in  attendance 
upon  the  meeting  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance  in  New  York,  and 
a  member  of  the  German  Commission  engaged  in  the  revision  of 
Luther's  Version,  to  be  introduced.  He  gave  an  interesting  ac- 
count, in  German,  of  the  progress  already  made,  and  expressed 
a  desire  for  a  mutual  correspondence  between  the  American  and 
German  Committees. 

A  committee,  consisting  of  Drs.  Woolsey,  Day,  Riddle,  and 
Green,  was  appointed  to  prepare  a  suitable  paper  in  response  to 
this  invitation,  and  to  rej)ort  the  same  at  the  present  meeting. 

The  Itev.  Dr.  Angus,  a  member  of  the  British  Committee,  who 
had  been  invited  to  meet  with  us,  then  gave  a  statement  of  their 
views  in  regard  to  the  nature  of  our  co-operation  with  them ; 
after  Avhich  the  paper  which  had  been  prepared,  after  some  mod- 
ifications, was  unanimously  adopted  as  follows  : 


84  DOCUMENTAKY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

"  The  American  Bible  Revision  Committee,  having  received  a 
reply  from  both  Companies  of  the  Euglish  Committee  to  their  in- 
terrogatory concerning  the  weiglit  that  their  voice  would  have  in 
the  final  decisions  of  the  revision  work,  to  the  effect  that  the 
American  Committee  were  expected  to  have  no  vote  in  the  said 
decisions,  would  respectfully  suggest  to  the  English  Committee 
that  the  Revised  Scriptures  are  designed  for  the  entire  English 
speaking  people,  nearly  one  half  of  whom  are  resident  in  America, 
and  that  these  so  resident  Avill  naturally  look  to  the  ATuerican 
Committee  as  their  authority  in  the  use  of  the  revision.  In  view 
of  this  fact,  bearing  so  largely  upon  the  results  of  the  revision 
labor,  in  the  imiform  reception  of  the  completed  revision,  the 
American  Committee  would  urge  it  as  its  well-considered  opinion 
that  the  labors  of  the  tv\-o  Committees  severally  should  have  their 
appropriate  influence  in  the  completed  work. 

"  This  proposition  is  made  with  a  view  to  the  widest  circulation 
of  the  Revised  Scriptures,  and  in  the  belief  that  two  separate  re- 
visions would  operate  unfortunately  for  the  interests  of  Protestant 
Christianity. 

"  The  American  Committee  feel  also  impelled  to  declare  that,  in 
accepting  the  invitation  of  the  English  Committee,  after  its 
enlargement  in  Great  Britain,  to  co-operate  with  them  in  the 
revision  of  the  English  version  of  the  Scrij)tures,  and  in  adopting 
the  same  principles  and  rules,  they  did  so  with  the  understanding 
that  the  members  of  the  American  Companies  were  invited  to  a 
joint  responsibility  with  the  members  of  the  English  Companies, 
and  regard  the  recognition  of  this  relation  as  most  important  for 
the  success  of  the  undertaking. 

"  They  Avould  also  trust  that  no  agreement  with  the  University 
Presses,  made  subsequently  to  the  organization  of  the  Ameiican 
Committee,  may  stand  as  a  hinderance  to  so  important  a  union. 

"  They  therefore  cannot  but  hope  that  such  an  interpretation 
may  be  given  to  the  rules  as  will  make  the  adoption  of  any  result 
dependent  upon  a  full  and  formal  co-operation  of  the  American 
Committee. 

"  Voted,  That  this  paper,  signed  by  the  chairman  and  secretary, 
be  transmitted  to  the  British  Companies. 

"  Voted,  That  Drs.  Washburn,  Crosby,  and  Aiken  be  requested  to 
confer  with  Dr.  Angus  and  other  members  of  the  British  Com- 
mittee who  may  attend  the  meetings  of  the  Evangelical  Alliance 
in  regard  to  possible  modes  of  responsible  co-operation  with  the 
English  Committee,  and  report  the  result  at  the  next  meeting." 


AMERICAIN"    EIBLE    EEVISION    COMMITTEE.  85 

FUETHEE,   ACTION   OF   THE   AMERICAN   COMMITTEE, 

March  26,  1875. 
(From  tlie  Minutes,  p.  66.) 

The  Bible  Revision  Committee  at  its  session  held  March  26, 
1875,  at  No.  42  Bible  House,  New  York,  after  full  discussion, 
unanimously  passed  the  foUowing  resolution  : 

"Whereas  we  have  now  finished  and  transmitted  to  our  Eng- 
lish brethren  the  revision  of  a  large  part  of  the  Pentateuch  and 
the  four  Gospels,  and  enabled  them  to  form  a  correct  estimate  of 
the  character  and  merits  of  our  co-operation  with  them  in  the 
joint  work ;  therefore, 

Resolved.,  That  the  President  of  the  American  Revision  Com- 
mittee be  authorized  and  requested  to  reopen  correspondence 
and  personal  conference  (if  convenient)  with  the  British  Com- 
mittee on  the  unsettled  question  of  our  precise  status  as  to  the 
authorship  of  the  joint  revision,  and  to  recall  to  them  our  previous 
expectation  of  a  "  positive  and  well-defined  weight  in  the  final 
determination  of  the  text  of  the  Revised  Scriptures."  (See  our 
instructions  to  Dr.  Scliafi",  May  31,  1873.) 

The  President  shall  i-epresent  to  our  British  brethren  that  we 
originally  accepted  the  trust  and  entered  upon  our  labors  under 
the  impression  that  we  were  fellow-revisers,  and  not  simply  ad- 
visers, and  that  we  feel  that  much  of  the  success  of  the  enterprise 
with  the  American  public  depends  upon  a  clear  setting  forth  of 
this  principle.  The  President  will  also  express  to  our  British 
brethren  our  sense  of  their  courtesy  and  frankness  in  their  inter- 
course with  us,  our  hearty  reciprocation  of  the  kind  wishes  con- 
veyed to  us  in  letters  from  both  the  British  Companies,  and  our 
fervent  desire  that  by  the  blessing  of  Almighty  God  we  may  hap- 
pily conclude  in  fraternal  harmony  the  important  work  in  which 

we  are  now  engaged. 

Howard  Crosby,  Secretary  pro  tern. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Scliaff  to  Bishop  Ellicott.] 

42  Bible  House, 
New  York,  April  17, 1875. 
T/ie  Lord  Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol, 

Chairman  of  the  N.  T.  Remsion  Company. 
My  Dear  Bishop  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  transmit  to  you  the  inclosed  action  of  our 


86  DOCUMENTATIY    HISTORY    OF    TIIE 

joint  Revision  Committee,  which  I  send  also  to  tlie  Chairman  of 
the  Old  Testament  Company, 

The  Committee  desire  me  to  visit  England  this  summer  and  to 
explain  to  your  Companies  our  present  situation,  and  the  grounds 
of  our  request.  But  as  the  May  meetings  of  j-our  two  Companies 
synchronize,  and  as  I  cannot  possibly  leave  my  post  before  the 
middle  of  May,  perhaps  not  before  June,  I  forward  the  document 
in  advance,  that  you  may  take  it  into  joint  consideration  if  you 
tliinlc  proper  to  do  so. 

I  am  quite  confident  of  a  result  that  shall  be  satisfactory  to 
both  parties.  You  will  find  us  quite  reasonable  in  all  minor  de- 
tails. 

Our  notes  on  the  Gospel  of  St.  John  are  now  in  the  hands  of 
the  printer,  and  Avill  be  forwarded  to  Mr.  Troutbeck  in  a  few 
days.     We  have  begun  Acts. 

Hoping  to  see  you  during  the  coming  summer,  I  am. 
With  great  respect. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[A  similar  letter  was  sent  to  the  Bishop  of  Winchester,  as  Chairman  of  the  Old 
Testament  Company.] 


[Dr.  Schaff  to  Canon  Trou'.bcck.] 

42  Bible  House, 
New  York,  May  1,  1875. 
My  De^vr  Sir  : 

I  beg  leave  to  send  you  by  next  steamer  thirty  copies  of  our 
Notes  on  St.  John  for  distribution  among  the  members  of  your 
New  Testament  Company.  We  are  now  in  session  and  have 
just  reached  Acts,  ch.  viii.,  first  revision.  I  will  send  an  extra 
copy  to  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester. 

The  Committee  have  directed  me  to  reopen  negotiations  with 
your  Committee  concerning  our  precise  relation,  and  wish  me  to 
do  it  by  personal  conference.  Perhaps  I  may  leave  before  the 
close  of  this  month,  and  see  you  this  summer. 

Very  truly  yours, 

pHiLir  Schaff. 
Canon  John  Troutbeck, 

Sec.  N.  T.  Revis.  ('omi>., 

4  Dean's  Yard,  Westminster, 


AMERICAISr    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  87 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Day  to  Dr.  ScliofE.] 

New  Haven,  Conn.,  May  12,  1875. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

Please  find  inclosed  a  certified  copy  of  the  resolution  in  re- 
gard to  our  relations  witli  our  British  brethren.  I  fully  agree 
with  you  that  more  can  be  done  in  the  delicate  relations  iu  which 
we  are  placed  by  personal  conference  with  tlie  British  Companies, 
than  by  correspondence,  and  am  glad  that  you  have  decided 
to  cross  the  ocean  again.  May  He  who  rules  the  winds  and 
waves  watch  over  you  and  bring  you  back  in  safety  and  health. 

I  am  not  very  sanguine,  however,  as  to  the  result,  and  contem- 
plate quite  distinctly  the  possibility  that  we  may  be  obliged  to  go 
on  with  our  work  alone.  ***** 

Your  friend  truly, 

George  E.  Day. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Scliaff  to  Dr.  Day.] 

42  Bible  House, 
New  York,  May  14,  1875. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Day  : 

I  thank  you  for  your  letter  and  copy  of  resolution  just  received, 
I  fully  agree  with  the  sentiments  you  express  concerniDg  the  nego- 
tiatioDS  with  the  British  Committee.  They  require  extreme  deli- 
cacy and  j^rudence — much  more  tliau  I  possess.  Yet  I  shall  do 
the  best  I  can  for  the  Committee.  It  is  simply  impossible  to  do 
it  by  mere  correspondence,  and  I  go  at  my  own  expense.  The 
Finance  Committee  which  I  succeeded  in  organizing  will  not 
move  till  they  learn  the  result  of  these  negotiations— which  will 
materially  affect  their  mode  of  operation.  But  I  am  sure  they 
will  help  in  any  case. 

I  send  you,  inclosed,  a  letter  to  the  Committee,  which  please 
lay  before  them  at  the  next  meeting. 

I  also  inclose  a  letter  from  Mr.  Wright,  Secretary  of  the  O.  T. 
Company,  which  ought  to  be  read  before  the  Committee,  as  well 
as  before  the  O.  T.  Company.  Please  keep  and  return  it  to  me 
for  my  correspondence. 

If  the  O.  T.  Company  have  finished  Leviticus  and  Numbers, 
they  had  better  send  them  directly  per  express  without  waiting 
for  my  leturn. 


88  DOCUMENTAKY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

I  have  just  turned  over  to  Mr.  Taylor,  the  new  Treasurer,  the 
balance  of  m}^  special  collections  of  the  last  few  clays,  which  will 
enable  the  Committee  to  go  on  without  further  aid  till  the  end  of 
the  year.  I  have  also  handed  him  all  business  papers  and  lists 
of  donors,  etc.,  and  feel  greatly  relieved.  I  worked  hard  on  these 
uncongenial  business  details  for  the  last  weeks,  and  I  feel  ex- 
hausted. It  is  high  time  for  me  to  get  away.  I  have  not  yet 
begun  to  pack,  but  shall  positively  sail  to-morrow,  D.  V. 

Most  trul}'  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


ACTION  OF  THE  BRITISH  COMPANIES  ON  THE  AMERI- 
CAN RESOLUTION,  1875. 

[Extract  from  the  Minutes  of  the  Proceedings  of  tlie  New  Testament  Company, 
on  Tuesday,  11th  May,  187.J.J 

A  joint  meeting-  of  the  two  Companies  was  held  in  the  Jerusa- 
lem Chamber,  at  one  o'clock,  when  the  following  resolution  was 
passed,  and  ordered  to  be  communicated  to  Dr.  Schaff,  as  repre- 
senting the  American  Committee  : — 

''  The  two  English  Companies  having  taken  into  consideration 
the  resolution  of  the  American  Bible  Revision  Committee  dated 
March  2  5,  1875,  and  communicated  to  them  by  Dr.  Schaff;  and 
having  also  carefully  considered  their  previous  correspondence  on 
this  subject,  and  especially  their  resolutions  of  July  17,  1-873 — 
namely,  'That  this  Company  (the  Old  Testament  Com])any)  have 
heard  with  great  pleasure  from  Dr.  Schaflf  of  the  cordiality  with 
which  the  American  revisers  have  entered  into  the  work,  and  of 
the  progress  they  have  already  made;  that  they  are  prepared  to 
give  the  most  carefid  consideration  to  any  suggestion  that  may  be 
made  to  them  by  the  American  Committee  ;  but  are  of  opinion 
that,  by  their  original  constitution,  as  well  as  by  the  terms  of  their 
agreement  witli  the  University  Presses,  they  have  not  the  power 
to  admit  to  a  share  in  the  right  of  voting  any  but  the  members  of 
their  own  Company  ;  that  it  is  their  desire  to  recognize  in  t\ui  f  idl- 
est way  compatible  with  this  limitation  the  labors  of  the  American 
Committee  ;  but  they  feel  it  would  be  premature  in  the  present 
stage  of  their  proceedings  to  settle  the  details  of  an  arrangement 
by  which  that  recognition  could  be  adequately  secureil.'  '  That  the 
New  Testament  Company  learu  from  Dr.  Schaff,  with  lively  satis- 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  89 

faction,  tliat  the  American  Bible  Kevision  Committee  are  making 
such  favorable  progress,  and  that  the  results  arrived  at  by  the  two 
bodies  are  so  mucli  in  accoi-dance.  The  New  Testament  Com- 
pany are  glad  to  have  this  opportunity  of  repeating  the  assurance 
that  they  will  attach  great  weight  and  importance  to  all  the  sug- 
gestions of  the  American  Committee,  and  in  each  case  take  into 
account  the  unanimity  and  preponderance  of  opinion  with  w^hich 
the  suggestions  have  been  made ;  but  they  are  precluded  by  the 
fundamental  rules  of  their  constitution,  as  well  as  by  the  terms  of 
their  agreement  with  the  University  Presses,  from  admitting  any 
persons  not  members  of  their  body  to  take  part  in  their  decisions. 
The  New  Testament  Company  desire  finally  to  express  their  confi- 
deut  hope  that  no  ultimate  difficulties  will  be  found  in  adjustino" 
any  points  in  which  the  American  and  English  Companies  may 
differ  in  their  respective  decisions  : ' — it  was  resolved 

"  That  the  English  Companies  are  unable  to  depart  from  the 
above  resolutions,  but  that  they  will  continue  to  give  the  greatest 
possible  weight  to  every  suggestion  of  the  American  Committee, 
and  will  also  endeavor,  whether  by  conference  or  otherwise,  to 
arrive  at  an  agreement  upon  any  points  of  importance  as  to  which 
the  English  Companies  and  the  American  Committee  may  not  be 
fully  agreed." 

J.  Troutbeck,  Secretary. 


A  PLEA  FOR  THE  AMERICAN  COMMITTEE. 

Al)stract  of  two  addresses  made  by  Dr.  Schaff,  on  behalf  of  the  American  Committee, 
before  the  New  Testament  Company  (the  Lord  Bishop  of  Gloncester  and  Bristol  in  the 
chair),  ;n  the  Jcrusali'm  Chamber,  June  15,  18r5  ;  and  before  the  Old  Testament  Company 
(the  Lord  Bishop  of  Winchester  in  the  chair),  in  the  Chapter  Library,  Westminster,  July  8, 
1875. 

I  have  tlie  honor  to  appear  before  you  a  second  time,  on  behalf  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revision  Committee,  to  arrange  the  terms  of  a  final  settlement  of  the  text  of 
the  Revised  Scriptures,  and  our  legitimate  status  in  this  work. 

At  a  joint  meeting  of  the  two  Companies  held  in  May  last,  before  my  arrival  in 
this  country,  you  have  again  decidedly,  though  very  courteously  and  respectfully, 
declined  our  request,  being  shut  up  to  this  course  by  your  original  constitution 
and  your  contract  with  the  University  Presses.  Notwithstanding  the  apjiarent 
failure  of  my  mission,  I  entertain  a  confident  hope  that  we  shall  be  able  to  arrive 
at  a  satisfactory  settlement  without  any  sacrifice  of  right,  consistency,  or  dignity 
by  either  party.     If  I  thought  otherwise  I  would  not  venture  to  address  you. 

We  have  now  labored  together  for  several  years  with  a  degree  of  harmony 
which  is  most  remarkable,  and  promises  certain  success  to  our  work  in  both  hemi- 
spheres. We  are  fully  agreed  in  the  fundamental  principle  of  revision,  which  is, 
to  ra'se  the  Authorized  Version,  within  the  limits  of  its  idiom  and  vocabulary,  to 


90  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

the  standard  of  the  best  biblical  and  English  scholarship  of  the  present  day,  so 
that,  with  very  many  changes  and  improvements,  it  may  still  read  like  the  venera- 
ble and  familiar  old  Book,  and  retain  all  its  flavor  and  sacred  associations.  We 
are  also  agreed  in  the  execution  of  this  principle  to  the  extent  that  wo  have 
adopted,  I  mny  venture  to  say,  nine-tenths  of  your  changes  in  reading  and  rendering, 
and  you  have  adopted,  as  I  am  happy  to  learn,  a  large  proportion  of  our  sug- 
gestions. Our  intercourse  and  correspondence  have  been  uniformly  marked  by 
Christian  courtesy  and  kindness  whicii  it  gives  me  great  !)leasure  to  acknowledge 
before  you. 

The  only  serious  difficulty  between  us  is  the  proper  status  of  the  American 
Committee  in  the  final  work.  It  would  bo  a  sin  before  God  and  a  disgrace  before 
the  Christian  world  if  we  should  allow  a  question  of  this  kind  to  endanger  the 
prosecution  and  success  of  a  work  in  which  every  reader  of  the  Bible  feels  an 
interest.     But  this  cannot  and  shall  not  be. 

Permit  me,  courteously  and  frankly,  to  explain  the  nature  and  grounds  of  the 
American  po.sition,  and  to  discuss  the  pos^sible  modes  of  settlement  : — 

I.  The  question  before  us  is,  whether  the  Americans  are  simply  advisers,  or  fel- 
[ow-revisers  and  fellow-authors,  with  corresponding  claims  and  responsibilities. 
You  seem  to  maintain  the  former,  we  the  latter.  Practically,  you  recognize  us  as 
fellow-revisers,  but,  in  form,  you  exclude  us  by  your  resolution  from  your  Com- 
mittee, and  allow  us  not  a  single  vote  on  any  question,  although  we  number  nearly 
thirty.  I  wish  you  to  consider  that  we  do  not  claim  an  equal  share,  but  only  a  just 
and  equitable  share  in  determining  the  final  text.  It  is  not  a  question  of  equality 
of  numbers  or  merit,  but  simply  a  question  of  right  and  principle.  We  cheerfully 
concede  to  you  the  primacy  of  honor  in  originating  this  great  work,  and  all  the 
rights  of  a  majority.  We  have  given  you  practical  proof  of  our  high  regard  for 
your  eminent  scholarship  and  abundant  qualifications  for  the  great  and  difficult 
task  which  rests  mainly  on  your  shoulders.  We  ask  you  only  to  recognize,  in 
form,  our  actual  share  and  title  in  the  joint  work  as  far  as  it  is  already  or  may 
yet  be  adopted  by  you,  and  to  do  this  in  a  manner  that  shall  be  available  in  law 
and  in  business  in  case  we  should  determine  to  secure  an  American  publisher  for 
the  Revised  Version. 

II.  Wo  make  this  claim  first,  on  the  ground  of  justice.  The  American  revisers 
are  regularly  and  fully  organized  in  two  Companies,  precisely  as  the  English 
Companies,  and  are  composed  of  about  thirty  biblical  scholars  of  the  loading 
churches  and  theological  institutions  of  a  nation  of  forty  millions  :  they  meet 
regularly  every  month,  at  considerable  sacrifice  of  time  and  comfort  ;  they  go 
through  the  whole  critical  and  exegetical  process  ;  they  give  you  the  results  of 
mature  deliberation  with  all  the  weight  and  authority  that  attach  to  a  represent- 
ative body  ;  they  pay  their  own  expenses,  and  expect  no  compensation  ;  upon 
their  exertions  mainly  will  depend  the  success  of  the  new  revision  in  America. 
Why  then  should  this  whole  American  Committee  be  deprived  of  the  right  which 
every  single  member  of  the  English  Committee  possesses,  and  be  left  out  of 
account  in  the  final  decision  ?  It  would  be  unreasonable  to  continue  such  an 
expensive  machinery  for  ten  or  more  years  simply  for  giving  advice. 

We  niake  this  claim,  secondly,  as  a  matter  of  honor,  in  behalf  of  the  American 
people,  who  have  inlierited  from  their  British  ancestors  a  spirit  of  self-respect 
and  manly  independence  that  will  never  consent  to  occupy  a  subordinate  and  hu- 
miliating position.  The  Americans  have  the  same  interest  in  the  Bible,  our  com- 
mon inheritance,  and  hail  this  opportunity  to  discharge  a  part  of  their  gratitude 
to  England  by  making  the  good  and  precious  book  still  better  and  dearer  to  the 


AMEPwICAlN    BIBLE    EEVISIOJST    COMMITTEE.  91 

Anglo-Saxon  race.  They  will  continue  to  support  our  Committee  liberally  if  we 
are  properly  recognized  as  fellow-laborers  ;  but  not  otherwise.  This  matter  of 
national  feeling  and  self-respect  is  not  to  be  lightly  set  aside,  even  in  so  sacred  a 
cause.  Only  reverse  the  position  ;  and  need  I  ask  you  v\^hether  high-minded 
Englishmen  would  think  for  a  moment  of  accepting  a  subordinate  position  in  the 
revision  and  publication  of  their  own  Bible,  or  show  any  zeal  for  the  introduction 
into  their  churches  of  a  foreign  version  to  which  they  had  merely  contributed 
valuable  advice  ?  Even  Scotland  would  take  little  or  no  interest  in  your  work  if 
she  was  not  properly  represented  by  a  number  of  her  ablest  scholars,  with  full 
power  to  vote  on  every  question. 

We  make  this  claim,  thirdly,  on  grounds  of  expediency.  Without  a  right  and 
title  to  authorship,  we  have  no  heart  to  ask  our  friends  for  further  contributions 
towards  our  expenses.  Without  such  title  properly  recognized  by  you  as  the 
principal  authors,  and  by  the  University  Presses  as  the  sole  owners  for  England, 
we  can  get  no  copyright  in  the  United  States.  And  without  copyright  we  can  get 
no  publisher.  Your  own  English  edition  will  then,  in  the  absence  of  an  interna- 
tional copyright,  be  exposed  to  literary  piracy  and  ruinous  competition  outside  of 
Her  Majesty's  dominions. 

And  this  is  the  reason  why  we  feel  sure  that  the  University  Presses  will  not 
hesitate  to  recognize  our  share  in  the  authorship  as  far  as  it  goes.  For  theieby 
they  will  enable  us  not  only  to  secure  a  copyright,  but  also  to  protect  the  purity 
and  integrity  of  the  revised  text  in  the  United  States.  We  could  buy  from  them 
duplicates  of  their  plates,  which  they  already  have  offered  to  us  on  certain  terms), 
for  publication  in  the  States;  they  would  still  be  free  to  export  their  editions  to 
America  (which  we  would  not  hinder  even  if  vv'e  could)  ;  and  no  publisher  in 
either  country  could  injure  the  one  or  the  other  party  by  an  irresponsible  reprint. 
For-it  will  be  a.  joint  copyrujld  for  joint  nufhorsliip  in  a  joint  ivork.  Copyright  in 
a  part  of  the  work  would  cover  copyright  in  tlie  whole.  By  an  expre^ss  under- 
standing between  the  British  and  American  publishers,  and  a  proper  notice  in  the 
Preface,  absolute  protectioa  can  be  secured  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic.  So  we 
have  been  advised  by  Amei-ican  lawyers  well  versed  on  the  subject  of  copyright. 

III.  But  now  we  come  to  the  practical  question  :  How  can  we  come  to  an  un- 
derstanding consistent  both  with  your  position  and  with  the  American  claim  ?  I 
do  not  ask  you  to  recede  an  inch  from  your  position,  but  only  to  consent  to  a  sup- 
plementary action,  which  is  left  open  by  your  own  expressed  desire  to  arrive  at  a 
full  agreement  with  us,   "  whether  by  conference  or  otherwise." 

The  following  plans  suggest  themselves  to  my  mind  as  feasible,  and  which  I 
beg  leave  respectfully  to  submit  to  your  judgment: — 

1.  Adopt  some  members  of  the  American  Companies  into  your  Companies,  and 
allow  them  a  certain  number  of  votes  by  their  printed  notes.  You  will  at  once 
raise  the  objection  that  you  cannot  allow  absent  Americans  to  vote  when  you 
refuse  this  right  to  your  own  absent  members.  But  the  physical  impossibility  of 
our  presence  on  account  of  the  intervening  ocean  would,  perhaps,  justify  an  ex- 
ception. And,  to  avoid  any  semblance  of  invidiousness,  we  might  adopt  a  similiar 
number  of  English  members  into  the  American  Companies,  with  the  same  right 
of  voting  by  letter. 

2.  A  Conference  Committee,  at  the  close  of  t!ie  work,  to  sit  in  London  (or  in 
New  York  if  you  will  honor  us  with  your  presence  and  give  us  the  pleasure  of 
showing  you  a  most  cordial  and  liberal  hospitality),  and  to  vote  with  power, 
according  to  your  own  rules,  on  the  remaining  differences.  But  this  method  la 
expensive,  and  would  considerably  protract  the  work. 


92  DOCUMENTARY    HISTOKY    OF    THE 

3.  Independent  co-operation  as  heretofore,  "witli  simultaneous  publication  of 
two  editions,  one  for  England  and  one  for  the  United  States,  with  possible  vari- 
ations on  minor  points,  which  might  be  adjusted  at  some  future  time.  This  I 
iwefer,  upon  the  whole,  and  I  beg  leave,  therefore,  to  submit  it  to  you  in  writing 
with  liberty  to  shape  it  as  you  deem  best.     (See  p.  93.) 

This  j)lan,  it  is  true,  will  involve,  probably,  a  depai'ture  from  the  original  plan 
o-f  issuing  one  and  the  same  text  on  both  sides  of  the  Atlantic  ;  but  it  has  the 
great  advantage  of  leaving  both  Committees  free  to  do  full  justice  to  the  dialectic 
and  provincial  tastes  and  peculiarities  of  the  two  nations  they  represent.  More- 
over, it  does  not  necessarily  exclude  the  other  two  proposals,  which  may  be  com- 
bined with  it,  reserving  only  the  right  of  final  decision  and  publication  to  each  of 
the  two  Committees. 

The  differences,  after  having  been  minimized  by  mutual  conference  between  the 
two  Committees  or  sub-Committees  (as  may  bo  deemed  best),  would  bL>  so  few  and 
intrinsically  so  unimportant  as  to  strengthen  rather  than  weaken  confidence  in  the 
revision.  They  would  bj  of  far  less  moment  than  the  textual  variations  of  the 
Greek  Testament,  or  even  the  Keris  in  the  Hebrew  Bible.  In  some  respects  we 
are  more  conservative  than  the  British  Companies,  in  other  respects  we  are  more 
progressive.  In  many  cases  we  have  gbtie  back  to  the  Old  Version  for  rythmical 
or  other  reasons  (as  in  the  rendering  of  the  Greek  aorlst,  which  sometimes  seems 
to  require  the  English  perfect),  but  we  very  seldom  differ  in  the  readings,  and 
in  the  grammatical  sense  of  a  word  or  passage  as  far  as  it  affects  the  translation, 
with  which  alone  we  have  to  do. 

From  our  past  experience,  the  differences  of  the  two  editions  would  be  chiefly 
of  three  kinds  : 

(a)  A  few  archaic  forms  (such  as  tvliich  and  the  wJiich  for  ivho^  he  for  are,  wot 
and  trid  for  hioic  and  kneiv,  to  prevent  for  to  gotjefore,  ov  j)rccede,  lotet  for  to 
hinder,)  which  your  Committee  would  retain  in  deference  to  English  taste  and 
liturgical  usage  ;  while  the  American  editions  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer 
have  anticipated  the  change.  Archaisms  which  are  not  contrary  to  modern 
grammar,  or  misleading,  will  be  cheerfully  retained  by  the  American  Committee. 

(6)  The  renderings  of  Hebrew,  Greek  and  Roman  measures,  weights  and  coins 
where  the  Americans  would  insist  upon  closer  renderings  (as  in  the  case  oi penny 
for  denarius)  or  national  equivalents  (at  least,  in  the  margin). 

(c)  The  restoring  of  distinctions  in  the  Hebrew  and  Greek  Scriptures  which 
are  obliterated  in  our  Authorize!  Version,  as  the  difference  between  Skeol  or 
Hades  (tire  realm  of  the  dead)  and  Gehenna  (the  i)laco  of  torment),  between  the 
(one)  deul  an;l  the  (many)  demons  or  evil  spirits.- 

The  first  and  second  class  of  variations  would  at  once  be  appreciated  by  the 
common  people  in  both  countries  as  perfectly  innocent  and  natural,  and  will  no 
more  disturb  their  devotion  than  differences  of  spelling  and  pronunciation. 
The  third  class  is  more  important,  but  would  be  explained  and  made  harm- 
less by  marginal  notes.  For  in  Uf-arly  all  these  cases  the  Americans  have  simply 
introduced  thi^  more  literal  marn;inal  reading  of  the  British  Companies  into  the 
text,  and  explained  the  original  Greek  or  Hebrew  word  (if  retained)  by  a  marginal 
note. 

The  third  arrangement  would  not  interfere  with  our  getting  duplicates  of  the 

[*  It  is  proper  to  state  that  pome  of  these  points,  as  the  important  distinction  between  Hn'le/t  and 
IMl,  have  been  adjusted  in  the  course  of  negotiations  by  the  concessions  of  the  British  Committee, 
or  rectified  by  marginal  explanations.] 


AMEEICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  93 

English  plates.  The  changes  could  as  well  be  made  in  England.  A  Preface  in 
both  editions  would  state  the  differences.  After  a  few  years  of  trial  the 
Churches  may  demand  a  compromise,  and  a  restoration  of  one  text  for  both  coun- 
tries. For,  alter  all,  cur  work  will  be  subject  to  the  judgment  of  the  Christian 
public,  for  whose  benefit  it  is  intended.  By  its  own  merits,  and  by  the  decision 
of  the  churches,  it  will  stand  or  full. 

I  now  beg  you,  in  the  name  of  the  American  Committee,  in  the  interest  of  the 
great  and  good  work  we  have  in  charge,  to  take  this  whole  matter  into  renewed 
and  final  consideration  ;  and,  if  none  of  the  three  proposals  commends  itself  to 
your  judgment,  to  devise  a  better  plan.  Give  us  the  substance  of  what  we  feel 
we  have  a  right  to  ask  as  our  share  in  this  joint  work,  and  there  is  no  reason 
to  fear  that  we  shall  fall  out  about  the  mode. 

If  your  last  action  is  to  be  final,  the  Americr.n  Committee  will  be  paralyzed,  and 
maybe  forced  to  the  unfortunate  alternative  of  either  disbanding  the  work,  or  car- 
rying on  an  independent  revision  of  their  own.  This,  of  course,  we  have  a  perfect 
right  to  d ).  But  we  greatly  prefer,  in  the  interest  of  the  Bible  and  of  inter, 
national  good-will,  to  co-operate  with  you  to  the  very  end,  and  to  unify  our 
labors  as  far  as  possible  and  desirable.  If  only  a  proper  legal  status  in  this 
joint  work  is  secured  to  us,  we  pledge  our  most  hearty  co-operation  till  the 
Anglo-American  revision  is  completed  and  introduced  into  the  Churches,  that 
it  may  carry  on,  with  increased  force,  as  far  as  the  language  of  Shakespeare  and 
Milton  resounds,  its  holy  mission  of  glory  to  God  and  peace  and  good-will  among 
men. 


ADJUSTMENT    SUGGESTED  BY  DK.  SCHAFF  TO  THE 
ENGLISH  COMPANIES. 

The  British  and  American  Committees  continue  to  co-operate 
as  heretofore,  as  independent  Committees,  with  equal  rights  and 
responsibihties  in  reference  to  the  two  countries  with  which  they 
are  severally  connected,  and  with  the  right  on  each  side  of  syn- 
chronously publishing  a  common  Revision  of  the  Holy  Scriptures, 
with  the  reservation  of  such  differences  as  it  may  be  found  in  the 
sequel  impracticable  to  remove. 


SETTLEMENT    PROPOSED    BY    THE  ENGLISH  COM- 
PANIES. 

Copy  of  resolution  passed  by  the  Old  Testament  Revision  Com- 
pany, in  the  Chapter  Library  of  the  Deanery  of  Westminster,  July 
8,  1875  : 

"  That  the  Old  Testament  Company,  in  their  desire  to  recognize 
the  co-operation  of  the  American  Committee  in  the  work  of  revis- 
ion,  would   suggest   that    the   practical    end   of  expressing  this 


94  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

recognition,  and  at  the  same  time  of  securing  the  copyright  of 
the  Eevised  Version  both  in  England  and  America,  will  be  best 
answered  by  the  appointment  of  certain  members  of  the  American 
Committee  as  members  of  the  English  Revision  Companies  and 
vice  versa." 

W.  Aldis  Wright,  Secretary. 

Resolution  passed  by  the  New  Testament  Revision  Company, 
Jerusalem  Chamber,  Westminster,  July  15,  1875  : 

"  That  the  New  Testament  Company  of  Revisers  of  the  Author- 
ized Version  are  desirous  to  see  an  American  copyright  in  the 
Revised  Version  secured  for  the  American  Revision  Committee. 
That  for  this  purpose  they  are  willing  to  concur  in  the  plan  sug- 
gested in  the  resolution  of  the  Old  Testament  Company,  subject 
to  the  following  conditions  : 

"  (1.)  That  the}'  receive  the  assurance  of  competent  lawyers  in 
America  and  England  that  the  effect  of  co-operation,  such  as  is 
proposed,  would  be  to  secure  to  the  American  Committee  the 
benefit  of  the  copyright  of  the  work  in  America. 

"(2.)  That  the  number  of  American  members  to  be  thus  added, 
be  definitely  limited  to  two  for  each  Company. 

"(3.)  That  the  ap])ointment  of  the  American  members  be  made 
by  the  English  Companies  in  the  same  manner  and  on  the  same 
conditions  as  other  additional  members. 

"  (4.)  That  the  American  members  so  to  be  co-optated  shall  have 
no  claim  upon  the  funds  agreed  to  be  paid  by  the  English  Presses  ; 
it  being  understood  on  the  other  hand  that  the  members  of  the 
English  Companies  receive  no  share  of  funds  which  may  be 
raised  in  America,  or  which  may  arise  from  the  American  copy- 
right. 

"  (5.)  That  the  whole  arrangement  obtain  the  express  consent  of 

the  two  University  Presses." 

J.  Troutbeck,  Secretary. 


ACCEPTANCE  OF  THE  ENGLISH  PROPOSITION  BY  THE 
AMERICAN  COMMITTEE. 

[From  the  Minute-^  of  the  American  Committee,  p.  77  seq.] 

At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the  American  Bible  Revis- 
ion Committee,  held  at  their  rooms  in  the  Bible  House,  New 
York,   September  24,    1875,    the   President    of  the   Committee, 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  95 

Rev.  Philip  Scliaff,  D.D.,  gave  an  account  of  his  conferences  with 
the  British  Revision  Companies,  and  presented  the  resolution 
passed  by  the  EngUsh  Old  Testament  Company  on  the  8th  of 
July,  1875,  and  that  passed  by  the  English  New  Testament  Com- 
pany on  the  15th  of  the  same  month  ;  upon  which  the  following 
paper  was  prepared,  and  at  an  adjourned  meeting  the  following 
day  was  adopted,  viz.  : 

"  The  American  Committee  has  heard  with  gi'eat  satisfaction  of 
the  action  of  the  British  Companies,  by  which  the  American 
Companies  are  recognized  as  fellow-revisers,  and  this  recognition 
is  expressed  by  the  resolution  to  elect  certain  members  of  the 
American  Companies  into  the  British  Companies  (the  American 
Companies  making  a  like  election  of  members  of  the  British 
Companies) :  and  hereby  records  its  full  acceptance  of  this  plan 
of  unification  in  the  great  work  we  are  sustaining  in  common. 

"  The  American  Committee  takes  this  opportunity  to  convey  its 
thanks  to  the  brethren  in  Great  Britain  for  their  courtesy  to  its 
representative  on  his  late  visit  in  their  behalf,  and  foi-  their  con- 
siderate regird  for  the  interest  by  him  represented." 

The  following  resolution  was  also  adopted  (p.  83)  : 

Whereas,  it  is  of  the  utmost  importance  that  the  nearest  prac- 
ticable approach  to  unanimity  among  those  engaged  in  the  re- 
vision should  be  secured  : 

''Resolved,  That  we  request  the  British  Companies,  after  receiving 
and  acting  upon  our  emendations,  to  send  a  list  of  any  differences 
which  may  remain  to  the  American  Companies  for  their  recon- 
sideration ;  with  the  understanding  that  if  differences  after  such 
reconsideration  should  still  exist,  a  special  joint  Committee  of  the 
British  and  American  Companies  shall  be  appointed,  who  shall 
report  the  results  of  their  deliberations  for  the  final  decision  of 
the  several  Companies." 

George  E.  Day,  Secretary.    . 

[These  resolutions  were  transmitted  by  the  President  to  the  Lord  Bisliop  of 
Winchester,  Chairman  of  the  Old  Testament  Revision  Company,  and  to  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Gloucester  and  Bristol,  Chairman  of  the  New  Testament  Revision 
Company.  The  further  proceedings  and  final  results  are  embodied  in  the  cor- 
respondence with  the  University  Presses.     See  next  Part,  especially  p.  123.] 


^art  €i)irlr. 


COEKESPONDENCE  WITH  THE  UNIVERSITY  PEESSES 
OF  OXFOED  AND  CAMBEIDGE. 


COKRESPONDENCE   WITH  THE   UNIVERSITY 
PRESSES   OF   OXFORD  AND  CAMBRIDGE. 


COREESPONDENCE  WITH  THE  UNIVERSITY  PRESSES. 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Cartmell  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Christ's  College  Lodge,  ) 

Cambkidge,  Feb.  T,  1874.  \ 
Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

The  Delegates  of  the  Oxford  Clarendon  Press  and  the  Syndics 
of  this  Press  have  carefully  considered  your  letter  of  June  30, 
1873*,  ill  regard  to  the  publication  of  the  Revised  Version  of  the 
Holy  Scriptures  in  the  United  States  of  America. 

We  are  disposed  to  consider  favorably  your  suggestion,  that  a 
duplicate  set  of  stereotype  plates  of  the  Revised  Version  should 
be  furnished  for  joint  publication  in  the  United  States;  and  we 
shall  be  glad  to  be  informed  whether  it  will  meet  your  views  to 
make  an  offer  for  such  privilege. 

Believe  me,  reverend  and  dear  sir, 

Very  respectfully  and  truly  yours, 

James  Cartmell. 

The  Rev.  Philip  Schaff,  D.D. 


ACTION  OF  THE   AMERICAN   COMMITTEE. 

(From  the  Minutes,  Feb.  27,  1874.) 

The  Chairman  then  read  a  letter  from  Dr.  James  Cartmell, 
President  of  the  Cambridge  Syndics,  expressing  the  willingness  of 
the  Delegates  of  the  Clarendon  Press  at  Oxford,  and  the  Syndics 
of  the  Cambridge  Press,  to  consider  favorably  the  proposal  to 
furnish  to  the  American  Committee,  on  suitable  terms,  a  duplicate 
set  of  the  stereotype  plates  of  the  Kevised  Version. 

Voted,  that  Dr.  Schaff  be  requested  to  continue  his  correspond- 
ence in  regard  to  stereotype  plates  of  the  revision. 

*  [This  was  merely  a  letter  of  inquiry,  written  in  England.    No  copy  preserved.] 


100  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

Dr.  Crosby  was  requested  to  act  in  place  of  Dr.  Strong,  now 
absent  from  the  country,  in  the  matter  of  obtaining  a  copyright 
for  the  Revised  Version  in  the  United  States. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  ScLaff  to  Dr.  Cartmell.] 

42  Bible  House,  New  York,  March  30, 1874. 

Eeverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

Your  favor  of  Feb.  V  was  duly  received  and  laid  before  the 
Revision  Committee  at  its  last  meeting. 

I  am  authorized  to  say  in  reply  that  the  American  Bible  Revis- 
ion Committee  is  willing  to  pay  a  fair  price  for  a  duplicate  set 
of  plates  of  the  Revised  Version  of  the  Scriptures  in  all  the  editions 
which  the  British  Committee  may  issue,  and  will  be  glad  to  re- 
ceive definite  proposals  from  you  whenever  you  are  prepared  to 
make  them. 

Such  an  arrangement  will  secure,  what  is  most  important,  entire 
uniformity  and  accuracy  in  the  editions  of  the  Revised  Scriptures 
to  be  issued  in  Great  Britain  and  the  United  States.  Besides  it 
may  enable  us  to  make  an  arrangement  with  an  American  pub- 
lisher or  with  the  American  Bible  Society  similar  to  the  one 
which  the  British  Committee  has  entered  into  with  the  University 
Presses. 

We  are  willing  to  give  the  Delegates  of  the  Oxford  Clarendon 
Press  and  the  Syndics  of  the  Cambridge  University  Press  the 
commercial  benefit  of  our  revision  labors  for  the  British  Empire, 
and  we  believe  that  in  justice  we  are  entitled  to  the  same  privilege 
within  the  United  States.  All  we  ask  is  that,  in  the  absence  of 
an  international  copyright,  we  may  get  the  duplicate  set  of  plates 
on  such  terms  as  will  secure  us  against  injurious  competition. 

I  have  forwarded  to  the  British  Committee  in  December  our 
revision  of  the  Book  of  Genesis,  and  the  Gospel  of  St.  Matthew. 
Exodus,  and  St  Marl',  will  soon  follow.  Our  suggestions  will  bo 
acted  on  by  the  English  Committee  in  April.  Bishop  Ellicott 
wrote  to  me,  Jan.  27,  in  behalf  of  the  New  Testament  Company, 
that  the  greatest  possible  attention  will  be  given  to  all  criticisms 
and  suggestions  of  the  American  Committee.  The  result  of  this 
exannnation  of  our  criticisms  by  the  English  Companies  will 
enable  you  to  form  an  estimate  of  the  nature  and  extent  of  our 
labors.     I  will  only  say  that  we  find  ourselves  in  full  harmony 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  101 

with  the  principles,  tact  and  taste  which  have  guided  the  British 
Companies,  and  that  our  criticisms  and  suggestions  are  all  in  the 
same  line.  AVe  shall  spare  no  pains  to  finish  the  important  and 
laborious  work  which  Providence  has  laid  upon  us. 

Hoping  to  hear  from  you  as  soon  as  you'  have  agreed  upon  the 
terms  of  the  purchase  and  the  time  of  publication, 

I  am  very  respectfully  and  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Caetjiell, 

Master  of  Christ's  College,  Cambridge. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Cartmell  to  Dr.  ScliafE.] 
[Confidential.] 

Christ's  College  Lodge,         ) 
Cambkidge,  5  August,  1874.  \ 
Eeverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

Your  communication  of  March  30,  1874,  relative  to  the  publica- 
tion and  sale  in  the  United  States  of  America  of  the  Revised 
Version  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  has  been  received  by  me,  and 
most  carefully  considered  by  the  Delegates  of  the  Clarendon 
Press  at  Oxford,  and  by  the  Syndics  of  the  University  Press  at 
Cambridge ;  and  I  am  authorized  on  their  behalf  to  make  the 
following  proposals  to  the  American  Bible  Eevision  Committee. 

We  presume  that  under  the  arrangements  we  propose,  you  will 
secure  to  yourselves,  or  to  some  authorized  agent,  the  sole  and 
exclusive  copyright  of  the  version  for  a  certain  number  of  years, 
together  with  the  consequent  exclusive  right  of  sale  in  the  United 
States  of  America ;  and  on  this  presumption  we  are  ready  to  con- 
cede and  convey  to  you  the  sole  and  exclusive  right  of  printing, 
publishing  and  selling  the  same,  or  any  part  thereof,  in  the  United 
States,  during  the  whole  term  of  our  copyright  as  by  the  laws  of 
England  established.  This  term  is  now  forty-two  years  from  the 
date  of  publication. 

We  will  also  supply  to  you  in  London,  for  the  purposes  con- 
ceded, plates,  either  stereotype  or  electrotype,  as  you  may  desire, 
of  every  edition  of  the  book  or  any  part  thereof,  whatever  be  its 
size,  form,  or  type,  at  the  trade  prices  for  such  plates  as  are  cur- 
rent in  England  at  the  time ;  and  we  will  give  you  due  notice  of 
the  intended  printing  and  publication  of  such  book  or  part  of 
book,  so  that  the  plates  may  be  sent  to  America  in  such  time  that 


102  DOCUMENTARY    UISTOKY    OF    THE 

there    may  be  simultaneous  publication  in   both  England   and 
America. 

In  consideration  of  this  concession,  and  the  exclusion  of  our- 
selves from  the  market  in  the  United  States,  we  think  it  fair  that 
the  American  Bible  Revision  Committee  should  pay  to  us  five 
thousand  pounds  sterling  (£5,000),  by  installments  proportionate 
to  the  portions  of  the  first  edition  of  the  whole  book,  containing 
the  Old  and  New  Testaments  and  the  Apocrypha,  of  which  the 
plates  or  coi)y  are  from  time  to  time  delivered  to  you. 

The  foregoing  terms,  if  accepted,  to  be  embodied  in  a  proper 
legal  agreement,  comprising  all  usual  clauses  applicable  to  the 
case.     Believe  me,  my  dear  sir, 

Very  truly  yoiirs, 

James  Cartmell. 

The  Rev.  Dr.  Schafp.  

[Dr.  Schafif  to  Dr.  Cartmell.] 

42  Bible  House,  New  York,  Sept.  5, 1874. 

The  Rev.  Br.  Cartmell,  Master  of  Christ''s  College,  Camhridge. 
Rev.  and  Dear  Sir  : 

I  have  the  honor  to  acknowledge  your  favor  of  Aug.  5,  in  which 
you  offer,  in  the  name  of  the  Delegates  of  the  Clarendon  Press  at 
Oxford  and  the  Syndics  of  the  University  Press  at  Cambridge,  to 
furnish  the  American  Bible  Revision  Committee  stereotype  or 
electrotype  plates  of  every  edition  of  the  Revised  Version  of  the 
Scriptures  and  parts  thereof,  at  the  trade  prices  for  such  plates 
current  in  England  at  the  time,  for  simultaneous  publication  in  the 
United  States,  with  the  exclusive  privilege  of  publication,  and  to 
the  exclusion  of  the  British  publishers  from  the  American  market, 
for  which  concession  you  ask  five  thousand  pounds  sterling  by 
installments. 

I  shall  lay  this  important  communication  before  the  joint  meet- 
ing of  the  two  Companies  on  the  last  Friday  of  this  month,  and 
shall  inform  you  in  due  time  of  their  action. 

For  the  present  I  confine  myself  to  the  remark  that  in  no  case 
would  we  exclude  the  English  editions  from  the  American  market 
even  if  we  could. 

The  only  thing  we  could  do  is  to  prevent  republication,  provided 
we  can  secure  the  copyright  in  the  United  States,  which  will  de- 
pend somewhat  upon  the  final  determination  of  our  status  and 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISIOISr    COMMITTEE.  103 

precise  relation  to  the  British  Committee.  It  "would  facilitate  our 
decision  if  you  would  kindly  inforci  us  how  many  editions  you 
propose  to  issue,  and  whether  the  demand  of  X5,C00  is  independ- 
ent of  the  number  of  editions  we  may  desire  to  purchase  from 
the  University  Presses. 

Believe  me,  my  dear  sir, 

Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 


m,\ 


[Dr.  Cartmell  to  Dr.  Scliaff.] 

Christ's  College  Lodge, 
Cambridge,  Oct.  16,  18' 

Reverend  and  Dear  Sir  : 

I  had  the  honor  of  receiving  your  letter  of  September  5  (whilst 
I  was  absent  from  Cambridge)  and  have  communicated  it  to  the 
Delegates  of  the  Oxford  Clarendon  Press. 

I  regret  that  I  did  not  receive  it  in  time  to  enable  me  to  send 
an  answer  to  your  inquiries  before  your  meeting  the  last  week  in 
September. 

Referring  to  the  last  paragraph  of  your  letter,  I  would  say : 

1.  That,  inasmuch  as  the  copyright  of  the  Revised  Version 
belongs  jointly  to  the  Universities  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge,  the 
two  University  Presses  would  do  what  was  possible  for  them,  to 
prevent  English  editions  from  competing  with  the  sale  of  your 
editions  in  the  American  market. 

2.  That  we  cannot  name  beforehand  how  many  editions  we 
shall  issue,  as  that  wdll  depend  upon  the  demand  of  the  English 
public  for  the  Revised  Version. 

3.  That  the  sum  of  X5,000  has  been  named,  independently  of 
the  number  of  editions  you  may  desire  to  purchase  from  the 
University  Presses. 

By  the  payment  of  such  sum  you  will  obtain  the  right  to  pur- 
chase, on  the  terms  named,  plates  of  every  edition,  whatever  be 
its  size  or  form,  issued  by  either  or  both  the  University  Presses, 
during  the  whole  term  of  our  copyright. 

I  am,  reverend  and  dear  Sir,  with  much  respect, 

Very  faithfully  yours, 

James  Cartmell. 
The  Rev.  Philip  Schaff,  D  .D. 


104  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

ACTION   or   THE   AMERICAN  COMMITTEE. 

(From  tlie  Minutes,  Sept.  26,  1874,  p.  57.) 

A  letter  from  Eev.  Dr.  Cartmell,  Hector  of  Christ  Churcli,  in 
the  name  of  tlie  Delegates  of  the  Clarendon  Press  at  Oxford  and 
the  Syndics  of  the  University  Press  at  Cambridge,  was  read,  in 
which  they  offer  for  the  sum  of  £5,000  to  fnrnish  the  plates  of 
all  editions  of  the  Revised  Version  issued  in  England  at  the  price 
of  the  plates  in  that  country,  the  American  Committee  to  have 
the  exclusive  right  of  publishing  the  version  in  the  United  States. 

After  remarks  from  several  members,  it  was  voted  that  the 
Executive  Committee  confer  with  a  number  of  leading  publishers 
in  regard  to  the  pubHcation  of  the  Revised  Version  in  the  United 
States,  and  report  the  result  of  their  conference  at  the  next  meet- 
ing. 

[In  accordance  witli  instructions  from  the  American  Company,  tlie  President 
and  a  member  of  the  Committee  entered  into  correspondence  with  three  well- 
known  publishers  to  ascertain  whether  and  on  what  terms  they  would  be  willing 
to  assume  the  publication  of  the  Revised  Version.  Two  declined  at  once.  A 
third  firm  looked  upon  the  terms  more  favorably,  with  certain  modifications,  but 
made  no  offer.  The  University  Presses  no  doubt  deemed  their  terms  liberal,  in 
view  of  their  very  large  outlay  in  paying  all  the  expenses  of  the  British  Com- 
mittee. At  the  same  time  it  is  due  to  the  American  Committee  to  state  that  while 
they  expected  to  pay  the  full  price  for  duplicate  plates,  including  one-half  of  the  cost 
of  composition  (which  are  the  usual  terms  on  which  American  publishers  can  se- 
cure duplicate  plates  of  any  English  book),  they  were  not  prepared  for  an  additional 
charge  of  £~).000  or  $25,000  ;  considering  the  fact  that  by  their  gratuitous  literary 
labors  they  have  increased  the  commercial  value  of  the  work,  and  that  they  never 
intended  (as  expressly  stated  in  the  letters  of  Dr.  Scliaff,  p.  102.  etc.)  to  interfere 
with  the  freest  importation  and  circulation  of  the  University  editions  in  the  United 
States,  such  as  tlie  University  editions  of  the  King  James'  Version  have  always 
enjoyed.  It  is  not  surprising,  therefore,  that  no  American  publisher  was  willing 
to  accept  the  terms  of  the  University  Presses,  and  even  if  they  had  been  ac- 
cepted, the  American  Committee  would  have  been  still  under  the  necessity -of 
providing  for  their  own  expenses.] 


[Letter  of  Messrs.  Harper  &  Bros,  to  Dr.  Schaff.] 

Franklin  Square,         i 
New  York,  Oct.  29, 1874.  j 
Dear  Doctor  Schatt  : 

'••  '"  ■'•  With  regard  to  Dr.  Cartmell's  letter  (returned  here- 
with) we  think  that  the  terms  proposed  are  not  unreasonable, 
provided  : 


AMEEICAN    BIBLE    HEVISION"    COMMITTEE.  105 

1.  That  the  price  for  phites  shall  be  simply  for  the  cost  of 
stereotyping  or  electrotypiug,  that  the  plates  shall  be  perfect,  and 
that  there  shall  be  no  charge  for  composition. 

2,  That  we  could  maintain  the  copyright  in  the  United  States. 
But  we  question  whether  such  a  copyright  could  be  maintained. 

Therefore  a  fair  plan  would  be  for  the  American  editors  to  guar- 
antee the  copyright  to  the  American  publisher,  who  would  pay, 
so  long  as  the  copyright  held,  a  royalty  to  the  American  editors, 
and  some  corresponding  royalty  to  the  English  proprietors,  until 
the  amount  thus  paid  shall  reach  X5,000,  the  sum  proposed  by 
them. 

"We  understood  you  to  say  that  it  would  be  several  years  before 
the  worlv,  or  any  portion  of  it,  will  be  ready,  so  that  there  will  be 
ample  time  for  a  modification  of  Dr.  CartmelFs  proposition. 

Yours  truly, 

Hap.per  &  Bros. 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Scliaff  to  the  authorities  of  the  University  Presses  ] 

42  Bible  House,  New  York,  November  16,  1875. 

The  Eev.  Jalies  Caetmell,  D.D., 

Master  of  ChrisPs  College,  Cambridge. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Cartmell  : 

After  some  unavoidable  delay  I  am  able  to  send  you,  for  the 
authorities  of  the  University  Presses,  the  inclosed  documents 
containing  the  action  of  the  Americau  Revision  Companies  in 
response  to  the  plan  of  adjustment  proposed  by  tlie  English 
Companies,"'^  and  the  legal  opinion  of  the  Hon.  Judge  Fancher,t 
formerly  Solicitor  in  the  United  States  Courts  and  member  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  State  of  New  York,  concerning  the 
question  of  copyright. 

"We  have  also  consulted  other  lawyers,  and  they  agree  with 
Judge  Fancher  in  the  opinion  that,  on  the  plan  proposed,  we  can 
secure  a  copyright,  and  that  the  election  of  several  members  of  our 
body  as  members  of  the  English  Companies  w411  tend  to  strengthen 
the  copyright,  but  that  the  chief  condition  is  the  assignmeut  of 
the  copyright  interest  by  the  English  revisers  to  the  American 
revisers  for  use  in  the  United  States. 

Such  an  assignment  is  undoubtedly  intended  by  the  British 

[*  See  p.  94,  93.  [f  See  p.  158.] 


106  DOCUMENTARY    IIISTOllY    OF    THE 

Companies  and  clearly  implied  in  their  sclieme  of  consolidation. 
It  is  as  clearly  understood  on  our  part  that  we  make  over  to  the 
British  Companies  our  share  in  the  literary  property  of  the  com- 
mon work  for  exclusive  use  in  England,  and  even  for  free  exporta- 
tion of  the  English  editions  into  the  United  States.  In  this  way 
the  copyright  will  secure  mutual  protection  and  guard  the  purity 
and  integrity  of  the  text  in  both  countries. 

Beyond  this  object,  so  important  to  both  parties,  we  have  no 
interest  in  the  copyright.  We  do  not  expect  to  need  it  for  the 
payment  of  our  expenses.  For  our  friends  are  willing  to  furnish 
the  necessary  means  in  order  to  facilitate  the  widest  possible 
circulation  of  the  Revised  Version,  provided  we  can  assure  them 
of  the  recognition  of  our  fellow-authorship.  This  recognition  is, 
in  our  opinion,  absolutely  essential  to  the  success  of  the  revision 
in  this  country,  and  will  ensura  such  success  without  a  reasonable 
doubt. 

We  are  quite  satisfied  with  the  proposed  plan  of  acknowledging 
this  fellow-authorship,  and  are  willing  to  consummate  the  ar- 
rangement on  our  part  as  soon  as  we  learn  that  the  University 
Presses  have  ratified  the  same. 

I  am  requested  by  the  American  Bevision  Companies  to  trans- 
mit to  you  these  views,  with  the  assurance  of  our  profound  regard 
and  cordial  gratification  at  the  prospect  of  a  satisfactory  conclu- 
sion of  our  negotiations. 

Believe  me, 

Yours  very  truly, 

Philip  Schaff. 

LEGAL  OPINION  OF  THE  HON.  JUDGE  FANCHER  ON 
THE   COPYRIGHT   QUESTION. 

229  Broadway,  New  York,  October  2d,  1875. 
Rev.  Philip  Schaff,  D.D., 

President  of  the  American  Bihle  Bevision  Committee. 
DEAPt  Sir  : 

Your  letter  of  the  18th  ult.  has  been  duly  received,  and  would 
have  been  sooner  answered  but  for  my  absence  from  the  city. 

I  have  read  with  care  the  plan  of  co-operation,  as  proposed 
between  the  British  and  American  Companies  having  in  hand  the 
work  of  the  revision  of  the  Holy  Scriptures.  It  suggests  an 
arrangement  between  the  American  Committee  and  the  English 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  107 

Committee  (in  which  are  to  be  included  the  representatives  of 
the  University  Presses  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge)  to  the  effect 
that  the  English  and  American  Committees  shall  be  consolidated, 
so  far  as  the  rights  of  authorship  are  concerned,  to  secure  to  them 
the  joint  ownership  and  copyright  of  their  Kevised  Version  of 
the  Holy  Scriptures,  as  well  as  to  guard  the  purity  and  integrity 
of  the  text  against  spurious  and  erroneous  reprints  in  England 
or  America. 

I  am  of  the  opinion  that,  upon  the  proposed  plan,  the  copy- 
right of  the  revised  work  may  be  secured  in  the  usual  method 
under  the  Acts  of  Congress  of  the  United  States.  But,  in  order 
to  effectuate  such  protection  to  the  copyright,  the  English 
authors  should  assign  to  the  American  Committee  their  rights  as 
such  authors,  so  as  to  bring  the  case  within  the  provisions  of  the 
Act  of  Congress.  That  Act  allows  citizens  or  residents  of  the 
United  States  who  shall  be  the  authors  thereof  to  copyright 
their  books,  etc.,  and  it  extends  the  same  privilege  to  their  ex- 
ecutors, administrators,  or  assigns.  U.  S,  Kev.  Stat.  p.  966. 
Previous,  therefore,  to  the  deposit  of  the  book  with  the  Librarian 
of  Congress,  for  the  purpose  of  securing  the  copyright,  a  proper 
transfer  should  be  executed  and  delivered  by  the  English  authors 
to  the  American  Committee,  so  that  the  latter  can  lawfully  claim 
here  the  full  copyright,  both  as  authors  of  the  portions  prepared 
by  them,  and  as  legal  assigns  of  the  portions  prepared  in  Eng- 
land. 

It  has  been  held  that  the  assignee  of  an  unpublished  literary 
composition  from  a  non-resident  alien  author  is  entitled  to  the 
protection  of  our  Act  of  Congress.  Keeno  v.  Wheatley,  9  Am. 
L.  R.  33;  Brightley's  Dig.  p.  181.  If  such  assignment  be  made 
to  those  in  America  who  are  the  authors  of  that  portion  of  the 
work  produced  here,  then  they  will  have  a  good  title  to  the  whole 
copyright  of  the  American  editions. 

You  have  asked  another  question,  which  is,  "  What  effect  will 
the  plan  have  upon  the  importation  and  sale  of  the  English 
editions  of  the  work  to  be  published  by  the  University  Presses 
of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  ?  "  I  answer  :  No  difficulty  need  arise 
in  that  respect ;  for  it  would  be  proper  that  the  American  Com- 
mittee should  execute  a  paper,  at  the  time  they  receive  the 
assignment  from  the  English  authors,  consenting  and  granting 
license  that  the  University  Presses  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge 
shall  be  at  liberty  to  publish  the  whole  work  in  England,  and  also 


108  DOCUMENTAKY   HISTORY    OF   THE 

to  export  to  and  sell  in  the  United  States  a,ny  of  their  editions 

of  tlie  same. 

I  should  add,  to  prevent  misconception,  that  I  do  not  think  the 

copyright  above  mentioned  will  cover  anything  but  the  alterations 

and  additions  of  the  revisers.     The  original  text  is  the  property  of 

the  public,  and  cannot  be  the  subject  of  copyright.    It  was  decided 

in  Stowe  v.  Thomas,  2  Wall,  Jr.,  547,  by  Mr.  Justice  Grier  that  it 

was  not  an  infringement  of  the   author's  copyright   to  print  a 

translation  of  the  romance   called   "Uncle    Tom's   Cabin."      A 

translation  may  not  be  a  piracy  of  the  language  of  the  original 

composition.     A  copy  of  the  one  would  not,  in  words,  be  a  copy 

of  the  other.     But  so  far  as  a  translation  is  itself  a  creation  or  an 

invention,  it  is  the  work  and  language  of  the  author,  and  may  be 

protected.      The  composition  is  his  own,  and  an  unauthorized 

transcript  thereof  would,  I  think,  invade  the  author's  i-ight  of 

"  copy."     It  is  the  application  of  new  toil  and  talent  to  produce 

novelty  and  improvement,  when  revisers  make  a  new  version  of 

the  Bible.     With  much  regard,  yours  truly, 

E.  L.  Fancher. 


[Letter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cartmell.] 

pjst's  College 
Cambridge,  January  5,  1876 


Christ's  College  Lodge,       _     ) 


My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  was  favored  witji  your  letter  of  November  10,  inclosing  a 
printed  copy  of  the  resolutions  of  the  American  Eevision  Com- 
pany, and  of  Judge  Fancher's  opinion  in  regard  to  the  copyright. 
These  I  have  communicated  to  the  Syndics  of  our  University 
Press  ;  and  I  desire,  on  their  behalf  and  my  own,  to  thank  you. 

We  shall  very  shortly  take  the  matter  into  careful  considera- 
tion. But,  in  order  that  we  may  have  the  whole  case  before  us, 
I  wish  to  call  your  attention  to  the  pecuniary  arrangement  pro- 
posed to  you  in  my  letter  of  August  5,  1874,  and  to  ask  you  to 
inform  me  whether,  in  the  event  of  the  other  points  being  settled 
to  your  satisfaction,  you  are  prepared  to  accept  it. 

You  will  I  am  sure  agree  in  the  importance  of  having  an  ex- 
plicit understanding  on  this  point. 

Believe  me,  my  dear  Dr.  Schaff, 

Very  truly  yours, 

James  Cartmell. 
The  Rev.  Philip  Schaff,  D.D. 


AMERICAlsr    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  109 

[Letter  of  Professor  Price  to  Dr.  Scliaff.] 

Seceetaky's  Room,  Clarendon  Press, 
Oxford,  Jan.  8,  187G. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  beg  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter  dated  New 
York,  Nov.  16,  1875,  respecting  the  admission  of  certain  members 
of  the  American  Company  of  Revisers  into  the  English  Compa- 
nies, and  the  mode  of  securing  copyright  of  the  Revised  Version 
in  the  United  States.  I  am  also  favored  with  a  copy  of  the  reso- 
lution of  the  American  Company  in  reference  to  the  resolutions 
of  the  English  Companies,  and  with  a  copy  of  the  opinion  of 
Judge  Fancher  on  the  question  of  copyright. 

The  Delegates  desire  me  to  thank  you  and  your  Committee  for 
these  communications. 

The  Delegates  observe  that  you  do  not  expressly  state  Avhether 
you  agree  to  all  the  terms  stated  in  the  letter  addressed  to  you 
by  the  two  University  Presses  in  June,  1874,  and  especially 
whether  you  are  willing  to  buy  stereo-  and  electroplates  of  the  sev- 
eral editions  on  the  terms  therein  mentioned,  and  also  to  pay  live 
thousand  pounds  sterling  (X5,000)  for  the  copyright  and  other 
privileges  proposed  to  be  granted  to  you.  The  Delegates  desire 
to  know  whether  you  accept  these  terms,  provided  that  a  copyright 
in  the  United  States  can  be  secured  to  you.  Also,  as  the  money 
is  to  be  paid  not  all  at  one  time,  but  from  time  to  time  in  install- 
ments at  a  ratio  proportionate  to  the  work  delivered  to  you,  they 
would  desire  that  some  responsible  person  or  persons  should 
guarantee  the  paj^ments  in  due  course  in  a  manner  to  be  approved 
by  them. 

These  matters  are  evidently  of  great  importance,  and  the  Dele- 
gates venture  to  hope  that  you  may  be  able  to  reply  to  these 
inquiries  without  much  delay,  so  that  they  may  proceed  to  the 
consideration  of  the  other  questions  referred  to  in  your  letter. 

We  presume  that  Judge  Fancher's  opinion  was  given  on  a  case 
submitted  to  him.  Would  you  be  good  enough  to  favor  us  with 
a  copy  of  the  case,  so  that  we  may  see  more  clearly  the  several 
points  on  which  he  gives  an  opinion. 

Believe  me  to  be,  my  dear  sir, 

Yours  very  faithfully, 

Bartholomew  Price, 
Secretary  to  the  Delegates  of  the  Clarendon  Press. 

The  Rkv.  Dk.  Schaff, 


110  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

RESOLUTIONS   OF   THE   AMERICAN   COMMITTEE. 

Extract  from  the   Minutes  of  the   Meeting  held,  42  Bibub 
House,  New  York,  January  28,  187fi. 

The  letters  [of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cartmell  and  Professor  Price]  were 
referred  to  a  Committee  consisting  of  Bishop  Lee,  Chancellor 
Crosby  and  Professor  Day,  with  instructions  to  report  upon  the 
same  at  five  o'clock  this  afternoon,  to  Avhicli  time  it  was  voted  to 
adjourn. 

At  five  o'clock  the  following  paper  was  presented  by  the  Com- 
mittee named  above,  through  their  Chairman,  Bishop  Lee,  and 
after  having  been  considered  and  discussed,  article  by  article,  was 
unanimously  adopted. 

Whereas,  We  are  requested  by  the  representatives  of  the  Syn- 
dics of  the  University  Press  at  Cambridge  and  the  Delegates  of 
the  Clarendon  Press  at  Oxford  to  state,  as  antecedent  to  their 
consideration  of  the  question  between  the  British  and  American 
Committees  engaged  in  the  revision  of  the  Authorized  Version 
of  the  Scriptures,  whether  we  agree  to  a  proposal  made  in  Au- 
gust, 1874,  by  the  Syndics  and  Delegates  of  the  above  mentioned 
Presses,  to  j)urchase  of  them  the  stereotype  or  electrotype  plates 
of  the  proposed  version  of  the  Scriptures  "  at  the  trade  prices 
for  such  plates  as  are  current  in  England  at  the  time,"  and  also 
"  to  pay  to  them  the  sum  of  X5,000  sterling  in  consideration  of 
this  concession  and  the  exclusion  of  the  British  publishers  from 
the  market  in  the  United  States  ": 

iLCSolved,  First :  That  any  financial  arrangement  on  our  part 
for  the  publication  in  this  country  of  the  Revised  Version  by  the 
purchase  of  the  stereotype  plates  or  otherwise  is  premature,  and 
at  present  entirely  impracticable,  and  that  the  question  of  a 
commercial  arrangement  with  the  University  Presses  is,  in  our 
judgment,  quite  apart  from  the  main  question  of  our  position  as 
feUow-revisers. 

Resolved^  Secondly  :  That  Ave  continue  to  regard  it  as  essential 
to  the  mutual  co-operation  of  the  British  and  American  revisers 
and  the  success  of  this  great  undertaking  in  the  United  States, 
that  our  joint  responsibility  in  the  production  of  the  Revised 
Version  should  be  mutually  and  frankly  acknowledged,  and  that 
with   this  view  we   accepted   the  arrangement  proposed  by  the 


AMERICAlSr    BIBLE    REVISION"    COMMITTEE.  Ill 

English  Committee  for  the  expressed  recognition   of   our  joint 
agency  in  this  work. 

Jcesolvcd,  Thirdly :  That  we  consider  it  exceedingly  desirable 
that  the  main  question  of  our  joint  responsibility  in  the  revision, 
treated  independently  of  all  commercial  arrangements,  be  settled 
as  speedily  as  possible,  Avith  the  understanding  that  the  recogni- 
tion of  our  full  co-operation  in  the  revision  work  does  not  inter- 
fere in  any  degi'ee  with  any  relations  subsisting  between  the  Eng- 
lish Companies  and  the  University  Presses,  or  give  us  any  pecu- 
niary rights  whatever  in  Great  Britain  or  her  colonies. 

Itesolved,  FourthJij :  That  our  work  in  America  has  advanced 
so  far  that  (supported  as  we  are  by  the  growing  sense  among  the 
American  people  of  the  importance  of  the  revision)  we  cannot 
conscientiously  abandon  it,  but  must  carry  it  out  to  the  end,  and 
that  we  devoutly  trust  that  in  so  doing  avo  may  ever  act  in  com- 
plete accord  with  our  brethren  of  the  English  Companies. 

Jicsolvecl,  Fifthly  :  That  the  President  of  the  American  Ee- 
•vision  Committee  be  authorized  to  communicate  this  action  both 
to  the  University  Presses  and  also  to  the  English  Companies,  as 
being  a  response  to  the  interrogatory  of  the  former  and  an  expla- 
nation of  our  position  to  the  latter. 


[Letter  from  Bishop  EUicott  in  behalf  of  the  English  Now  Testament  Company, 
in  response  to  the  Resolutions  of  the  Am.  Com.,  Jan.  28,  187G.] 

Jerusalem  Chamber,  S.  TV., 

February  23,  1876. 
Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  have  the  honor  of  transmitting  to  you  and  the  American  Com- 
panies the  following  resolution  : 

That  inasmuch  as  the  New  Testament  Company  has  transfeiTed 
the  copyright  of  their  revision  to  the  University  Presses,  and  as 
the  resolutions  recently  transmitted  materially  affect  the  interests 
of  the  possessors  of  the  copyright,  it  is  to  the  Presses  that  the 
New  Testament  Company  must  refer  the  American  Companies 
for  an  answer  to  the  questions  raised  in  their  resolutions. 
I  remain,  with  kind  compliments, 
Very  faithfully  yours, 

C.  J.  Gloucester  and  Bristol. 


112  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

[I>etter  from  Bishop  Browne  of  Winchester,  and  action  of  the  English  Old  Testa- 
ment Company.] 

Faenham  Castle,  Surrey,      ) 
March  20,  187G.  ) 
Mj  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  have  been  desired  to  send  to  you,  as  representing  the  Ameri- 
can Committee,  the  inclosed  resolutions  of  the  English  Old  Testa- 
ment Comjiany,  and  I  very  heartily  join  in  the  expression  of  earnest 
hope  that  the  questions  between  us  may  be  satisfactorily  settled. 

Beheve  me  ever 

Very  sincerely  yours, 

E.  H.  WiNTON. 


Copy  of  Resolutions  jpasscd  hy  the  Old  Testament  Revision  Com- 
2)emy,  Jerusalem  Chamlter^  Wesiviinsfer,  Jfarc/i  15,  1S7G. 

1.  That  the  Old  Testament  Revision  Company,  having  taken 
into  consideration  the  resolutions  of  the  American  Committee 
passed  January  28,  187G,  are  of  opinion  that  inasmuch  as  ques- 
tions of  a  financial  character  have  been  raised  between  the  Ameri- 
can Committee  and  the  University  Presses,  of  which  the  Company 
were  not  cognizant  and  which  they  have  no  power  to  decide,  it  is 
impossible  for  them,  liaviug  transferred  the  copyright  of  the  Re- 
vised Version  to  the  University  Presses,  to  interfere  with  the  legiti- 
mate claims  of  the  Presses  in  respect  to  it.  And  however  desir- 
al)le  it  may  be  to  separate  financial  considerations  from  the 
question  of  joint  authorship  and  copyright,  the  Old  Testament 
Company  would  I'espectfully  submit  that  in  the  present  instance 
such  a  separation  cannot  be  effected,  inasmuch  as  the  interest  of 
the  University  Presses  in  the  revision  is  to  a  large  extent,  altliough 
not  exclusively,  of  a  financial  character.  The  Company  thorefioe 
feel  unable  to  go  beyond  their  resolution  of  July  8,  1875,  and 
must  leave  the  financial  question  to  be  settled  as  it  has  beea 
raised,  between  the  American  Committee  and  the  University 
Presses. 

2.  That  the  Bishop  of  "Winchester  be  requested,  in  conveying 
the  above  resolution  to  the  American  Committee,  to  express  on 
the  part  of  the  Old  Testament  Company  their  earnest  hope  that 
the  questions  which  have  arisen  between  the  American  Commit- 
tee and  the  University  Presses  may  be  satisfactorily  settled. 


AMEEICAN    BIBLE    PtEYISIOlSr    C03IMITTEE.  113 

STATEMENT    OF    THE   AMERICAN    BIBLE    EEVISION 
COMMITTEE  TO  THE  BRITISH  BIBLE  REVISION 
COMMITTEE,  MAY  26,  1876. 

[From  tLe  Minutes,  pp.  lOo,  IOC] 
It  has  seemed  expedient  to  the  American  Bible  Revision  Com- 
mittee to  make  a  statement  of  their  views  on  the  matter  of  dif- 
ference between  them  and  their  brethren  of  the  British  Bible 
Revision  Committee,  withont  any  direct  reference  to  the  former 
correspondence.  We  therefore  respectfully  submit  the  following 
to  the  British  Committee  :  * 

1.  The  desire,  we  believe,  is  earnest  on  both  sides  the  Atlantic 
that  the  Revised  Bible  shall  be  accepted  wherever  the  English 
language  is  spoken  ;  and  that  the  revision  shall  be  one. 

2.  As  this  country  contains  about  one-half  the  English-speak- 
ing people  of  the  world,  it  is  proper  to  consider  that  the  success 
of  the  revision  here  depends  very  largely  upon  the  connection  of 
American  scholarship  with  the  work. 

3.  Therefore  the  American  Committee  deem  it  essential  to  the 
true  success  of  the  revision  that  their  co-authorship  be  acknowl- 
edged, no  mere  advisoiy  2:)osition  meeting  the  want  in  any  just 
degree. 

4.  The  particular  way  in  which  this  co-authorship  shall  be 
recognized  is  a  matter  of  comparatively  small  moment,  and  may 
be  left  for  decision  until  the  time  for  final  revision  and  publica- 
tion, it  being  clear  that  we  cannot  be  responsible  for  any  part  of 
the  work  in  the  final  determination  of  which  we  have  no  voice. 

It  may  be  proper  at  this  point  to  remind  our  English  brethren, 
that,  although  we  have  regularly  transmitted  such  suggestions  as 
occurred  to  us  in  examining  their  work,  copies  of  which  were 
courteously  furnished  us,  we  have  not  yet  been  officially  informed 
of  the  action  taken  upon  any  of  them. 

5.  The  two  questions  of  copyright  and  co-authorship  are  not 
necessarily  connected,  so  far  as  Ave  are  concerned.  It  is  sufficient 
for  us  to  say  tliat  no  copyright  is  sought  by  us,  except  for  the 
preservation  of  the  purity  of  the  text.  It  should  be  clearly  under- 
stood that  our  expenses  are  defrayed  from  wholly  independent, 
voluntary  sources,  and  that  we  have  no  pecuniary  interest  or  ob- 
ject in  the  publication  of  the  Revised  Version. 

[*  The  report  was  made  by  Dr.  Crosby  as  chairman  of  a  committee  previously 
appointed,  and  was  adopted  unanimously,  with  the  exception  of  Dr.  Kruuth,  who 
voted  against  it. 


114  DOCUMEjSTTATtY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

G  It  is  equally  clonr,  that  the  relation  between  the  British 
Committee  and  the  University  Presses  is  one  with  which  M-e  have 
nothing  to  do.  That  is  largely  a  pecuniary  relation.  Our  claim 
is  a  moral  one  enth-ely,  and  will  in  no  way  increase  the  expenses 
of  the  University  Presses.  We  ask  no  financial  lielp  from  them ; 
but  we  actually  put  into  tho  work,  without  compensation,  the 
commercial  value  of  our  literary  labors.  It  is  our  mature  convic- 
tion that  we  should  take  no  other  position  than  that  of  Christian 
scholars,  giving  our  time  and  labor  from  a  single-hearted  interest 
in  the  study  and  propagation  of  the  Holy  Scriptures. 

We  lay  this  plain  statement  of  the  case  before  our  brethren, 
hoping  that  they  will  fully  appreciate  the  motive  which  prompts  it. 

We  are  willing  to  go  forward  with  the  revision,  as  we  have  done 
during  the  past  four  years,  but  we  claim  it  as  due  to  justice  that 
our  share  in  the  authorship  be  clearly  recognized. 


[Letter  from  Canon  Troutbcck.] 

4  Dean's  Yard,  AVestminster,      ) 
14  June,  187G.  f 
My  Dear  Sir  : 

I  beg  to  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  your  letter  of  May  30,  an- 
nouncing the  dispatch  of  your  notes  on  the  Catholic  Epistles, 
which  I  hope  will  reach  us  in  the  same  good  condition  as  did 
your  last  parcel  containing  your  notes  on  the  Acts. 

I  am  requested  by  the  Company  to  inform  you  that  the  Uni- 
versity Presses  have  prohibited  them  from  sending  you  any  more 
of  their  work,  and  that  until  this  prohibition  is  removed  they 
have  not  the  power  to  supply  you  with  any  more  material. 

I  remain  yours  very  truly, 

J.  Troutbeck. 

Rev.  Dii.  Schaff. 

ACTION  OF  THE  NEW  TESTAMENT  COMPANY. 

The  New  Testament  Company  at  their  meeting  in  the  Bible 
House,  New  York,  July  0,  1876,  having  heard  the  letter  from 
Canon  Troutbeck,  took  the  following  action  : 

iLesolvcd,  That  this  communication  from  the  British  revisers  be 
referred  to  the  general  meeting  of  the  Committee  on  September 
29,  at  9:30  a.m.  (instead  of  7:30  r.M.,  as  before  voted),  and  we  ask 
the  concurrence  of  the  Old  Testament  Company  in  this  action. 

J.  Henry  Thayer,  Sec'ij  of  3^  7'.  Co. 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISIOlSr    COMMITTEE.  115 

The  Old  Testament  Company  at  their  session  in  New  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J.,  July  12,  1876,  concurred  in  the  above  action. 

John  DeWitt, 

Sec  y  pro  tern,  of  the  O.  T.  Covip. 


[Letter  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cartmell.] 

Christ's  College  Lodge,  ) 

Cambridge,  10  July,  1876.  } 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  have  given  to  your  letter  of  May  5th  much  careful  consid- 
eration. 

1  transmit  herewith  the  joint  resolutions  of  the  Delegates  of 
the  Oxford  Press  and  the  Syndics  of  the  Cambridge  Press,  in 
reply  to  the  resolutions  of  the  American  Committee  dated  Janu- 
ary 28,  1876. 

The  authorities  of  the  Presses  do  not  desire  to  urge  upon  the 
American  Committee  the  acceptance  of  the  offer  contained  in  my 
letter  of  August,  1874.  At  the  time,  we  thought  the  offer  reason- 
able and  equitable ;  but  as  you  are  unable  to  accept  it,  we  with- 
draw it  in  every  particular. 

Also,  considering  the  practical  difficulty  and  uncertainty  of  es- 
tablishing in  America  a  copyright  in  the  Revised  Version,  I  think 
the  question  of  copyright  had  better  be  withdrawn  from  dis- 
cussion. 

And  as  I  understand  that  the  proposal  to  permit  our  revisers 
to  elect  into  their  respective  Companies  members  of  the  American 
Committee  was  made  solely  in  the  hope  of  obtaining  for  the  Com- 
mittee copyright  in  America,*  this,  of  course,  must  be  abandoned. 

The  co-operation  however  of  the  English  Companies  and  the 
American  Committee  need  not  be  discontinued  ;  and  any  arrange- 
ment for  continuing  it,  I  am  persuaded,  shall  receive  fi-om  the 
authorities  of  the  Presses  favorable  consideration,  provided  that 
due  security  is  taken  to  prevent  the  disclosure  to  the  public  of  the 
communications  between  the  Companies  and  the  Committee — 
which  must  necessarily  be  confidential. 

Believe  me,  my  dear  Dr.  Schaff, 

Very  truly  yours, 

James  Cartmell. 

The  Revebend  Philip  Schaff,  D.D, 

[*  This  is  a  mistake  ;  the  arrangement  was  proposed  mainly  for  the  purpose  of 
securing  the  moral  rights  of  the  Am.  revisers.] 


116  DOCUMEl^J^TARY    HISTOKY    OF    THE 

RESOLUTIONS  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  PRESSES. 

Revision   of  the  Authorized  Version  of  the  Holy   Scriptures. 

Memorandum. 

Tlie  Delegates  of  the  Clareiulon  Press,  Oxford,  and  the  Syn- 
dics of  the  University  Press,  Cambridge,  have  had  under  consid- 
eration the  resolutions  of  the  American  Revision  Committee, 
dated  January  28,  1876,  which  have  been  communicated  to  them 
by  Dr.  Schaff. 

The  Delegates  and  Syndics  have  resolved  as  follows : 

1.  That,  whereas  the  terms  stated  by  Dr.  Cartmell  on  behalf  of 
the  two  Presses  in  his  letter  to  Dr.  Schaff,  dated  August  5,  1874, 
have  not  been  accepted,  these  terms  be  now  withdrawn. 

2.  That,  whereas  the  resolutions  agreed  to  by  the  English  Re- 
vision Companies  in  July,  1875,  were  expressly  declared  to  be 
subject  to  the  consent  of  the  University  Presses  (as  indeed  they 
must  necessarily  be),  the  Delegates  and  Syndics  cannot  consent 
under  present  circumstances  to  give  effect  to  such  resolutions. 

3.  That  the  American  Committee  be  informed  that,  if  they  can 
see  their  way  to  make  any  other  proposals  to  the  Delegates  and 
Syndics,  such  proposals  shall  receive  respectful  consideration,  if 
communicated  not  later  than  November  1st  next. 


ACTION  OF  THE  AMERICAN  COMMITTEE. 

42  Bible  House,  New  York, 
September  30,  1876. 

[From  tlie  Minutes,  pp.  111-113.  The  following  report  was  prejxn-ed  hy  the 
officers  of  the  two  Companies  and  unanimously  adopted  by  a  full  meeting.] 

Whereas,  we  have  received  information  from  the  New  Testa- 
ment Company  of  the  British  revisers,  under  date  of  June  14, 
187(>,  "  that  the  University  Presses  have  prohibited  them  from 
sending  any  more  of  their  work  "  ;  and 

Whereas,  since  then  we  have  been  invited  by  the  authorities 
of  the  English  University  Presses  and  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Cartmell, 
in  a  letter  dated  Jtdy  10,  1876,  "to  make  any  other  proposals 
for  continuing  the  co-operation  of  the  English  Companies  and 
the  American  Committee  "  : 

Resolved,  I.  That  we  began  and  have  continued  our  work  under 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  Il7 

the  assurance  made  by  the  British  Companies  that  they  would 
supply  us  with  their  revision,  and  we  are  unable  to  divine  w^hy 
the  fullfilment  of  that  agreement  should  have  been  prohibited ; 
yet  from  the  memorandum  of  the  Uiiiversity  Presses  and  the  let- 
ter of  the  Kev.  Dr.  Cartmell  we  are  glad  to  infer  that  the  prohibi- 
tion has  been  or  will  be  removed,  and  thus  the  original  and  nec- 
essary basis  of  co-operation  re-established. 

Besolved,  II.  That  inasmuch  as  we  have  to  assume  a  certain  re- 
sponsibility for  the  revision  in  the  United  States,  we  regard  it  as 
right  for  us,  before  any  part  of  the  revision  goes  finally  to  the 
press,  to  know  what  shape  it  will  ultimately  take,  if  we  are  to 
have  one  and  the  same  revision  for  both  countries. 

We  therefore  propose  that,  prior  to  the  publication  of  any 
part  of  the  revision,  an  attempt  should  be  made  to  bring  the 
work  of  the  British  and  American  Companies  into  entire  ac- 
cordance ;  and,  with  this  view,  that  a  report  be  made  to  us  of  the 
action  taken  upon  our  suggestions,  thus  affording  an  opportunity, 
by  conference  or  otherwise,  of  securing  a  satisfactory  adjustment 
of  any  remaining  points  of  difference.  In  case  such  an  adjust- 
ment be  secured,  the  American  market  will  be  freely  open,  with 
our  cordial  endorsement,  to  the  English  editions  of  the  revision, 
Avith  whatever  commercial  advantage  may  accrue  to  the  Univer- 
sity Presses  for  a  specified  period. 

Should  the  preceding  proposal  be  unsatisfactory  or  impractica- 
ble, we  submit  the  following  alternative  as  a  general  basis,  the 
details  to  be  adjusted  hereafter: 

That  the  English  and  American  Committees  continue  to  co- 
operate as  heretofore  by  a  confidential  exchange  of  their  labors, 
working  on  the  same  principles  and  aiming  at  one  and  the  same 
revision  of  the  English  version  ;  yet  reserving  for  each  Committee 
the  right  to  vote  finally  on  all  questions,  and  to  issue  (in  case  it 
be  deemed  best)  two  recensions  of  the  same  revision,  with  such 
differences  as  they  may  not  be  able  to  adjust  to  their  mutual  satis- 
faction— it  being  understood  that,  in  this  case  al'so,  the  American 
Committee  does  not  intend  (and  never  did  intend)  to  anticipate 
the  British  publication  of  the  revision,  in  whole  or  in  part,  or  to 
interfere  with  the  free  circulation  of  the  editions  of  the  University 
Presses  in  the  United  States. 

It  is  understood  by  the  American  Committee  that  the  confiden- 
tial character  of  the  communications  between  them  and  the 
British  Companies  shall  be  sacredly  observed  as  heretofore. 


118  DOCUMENTAUY    HISTORY    OF    Til?: 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Schaff  to  the  American  Bevisiou  Committee.] 

London  (Great  Kussell  Street), 

January  4,  1877. 
To  the  Bible  Bevisiou  Committee^  ]}^eiv  York. 
Dear  Brethren  : 

Upon  mj  arrival  in  Liverpool  I  set  myself  in  communication 
with  tlie  Rev.  Dr.  Cartmell,  and  after  some  preliminary  corre- 
spondence I  concluded  with  him  an  arrangement  which  I  liere- 
witli  transmit  to  you.  It  is  based  upon  our  second  proposition 
without  excluding  the  first,  and  leaves  us  free  to  carry  out  the  one 
or  the  other  as  we  think  best.  There  are  no  conditions  attached 
to  it,  but  only  two  desires  concerning  the  unity  of  the  revision, 
and  its  completion  within  the  ten  years  originally  fixed.  In  these 
desires  we  ourselves  fully  share.  The  arrangement  is  therefore 
as  satisfactory  as  we  can  wish.  It  Avill  be  shortly  submitted  to 
the  University  Presses  and  the  Revision  Companies  for  their  for- 
mal ratification.  I  am  assured  by  several  influential  members 
that  it  will  be  cordially  sanctioned  by  both. 

I  learn  here  that  the  New  Testament  Company  has  not  yet 
acted  on  our  notes,  except  those  on  the  Synoptical  Gos2)els  ;  that 
it  is  nearly  done  with  the  Hebrews,  and  expects  to  finish  Reve- 
lation in  May.  After  that  it  will  proceed  to  the  second  and  final 
revision,  and  in  connection  with  it  carefully  consider  our  emen- 
dations and  suggestions.  The  Secretary  promised  me  to  send  us 
a  full  account  of  their  action.  The  Old  Testament  Company  will 
no  doubt  do  the  same. 

In  the  meantime  it  is  well  worth  your  consideration  whether  it 
might  not  be  better  for  you  to  revise  the  remaining  books  inde- 
pendently, and  to  consider  the  English  revision  on  your  second 
revision,  with  a  view  to  conform  the  two  as  nearly  as  possible.  I 
have,  however,  left  directions  for  the  transmission  of  new  material. 

Having  accomplished  all  I  could  at  present  in  England,  I  shall 
now  proceed  to  Bible  lands  Avithout  any  delay  and  return  in  May 
or  June,  when  I  shall  see  the  British  revisers  and  the  representa- 
tives of  the  University  Presses  for  any  further  business  relating 
to  our  work.  I  shall  bo  with  you  in  spirit  at  your  monthly  meet- 
ings, which  it  is  a  great  privilege  to   attend  and  a  great  loss  to 

miss. 

"With  the  best  wishes  for  many  happy  New  Years, 

I  am  yours  faithfully, 
Philip  Schaff. 


AMEEICAlSr    BIBLE    REVISIOIST    COMMITTEE.  119 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Cartnicll  to  Dr.  ScliaiT.] 

Chkist's  College  Lodge,  Cambeidge, 

30  December,  187G. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

I  am  Avilliiig  to  recommend  the  Syndics  of  this  Press  to  sanc- 
tion an  arrangement  something  Hke  the  following  (which  is  based 
on  the  second  of  the  proposals  contained  in  your  letter  of  30th 
Sept.  last)  between  the  American  Committee  and  the  two  English 
Companies  of  revisers. 

That  the  American  Committee  and  the  English  Companies 
continue  to  co-operate  as  heretofore  by  a  confidential  cxchaDge 
of  their  labors,  working  on  the  same  principles,  and  aiming  at 
one  and  the  same  revision  of  the  present  English  Authorized  Ver- 
sion, yet  reserving  for  the  American  Committee  the  right  ulti- 
mately to  decide  for  itself,  independently  of  the  English  Compa- 
nies, any  question  on  Avhich  an  agreement  cannot  be  arrived  at, 
and  also  the  right  to  issue,  subsequently  to  the  publication  of  the 
English  Revised  Version,  a  recension  of  its  own,  if  it  thinks  nec- 
essary so  to  do. 

As  a  pare  of  the  arrangement  I  adopt  with  pleasure  your  own 
words,  merely  saying  by  way  of  parenthesis  that  I  never  doubted 
the  assurances  contained  in  them  : 

"  It  being  understood  that  the  American  Committee  does  not 
intend  (and  never  did  intend)  to  anticipate  the  Enghsh  publica- 
tion of  the  revision,  in  whole  or  in  part,  or  to  interfere  with  the 
free  circulation  of  the  editions  of  the  University  Presses  in  the 
United  States." 

"  It  is  understood  by  the  American  Committee  that  the  confi- 
dential character  of  the  communications  between  them  and  the 
English  Companies  shall  be  sacredly  observed  as  heretofore." 

To  this  I  desire  to  append  two  observations  : 

(1)  I  earnestly  hope  that  a  second  recension  may  be  found  un- 
necessary, and  that  it  may  be  possible  to  secure  the  substitution 
of  a  single  revised  version  for  the  present  Authorized  Version 
which  has  hitherto  been  used  so  largely  over  the  English-speak- 
ing Avorld. 

(2)  As  the  ten  years  within  which  our  two  Companies  have 
undertaken  with  the  University  Presses  to  complete  the  revision 
are  fast  gliding  away,  the  Companies  will  naturally  be  anxious  to 
secure  as  much  rapidity  as  possible  in  the  transmission  of  com- 
munications from  the  American  Committee. 


120  DOCUMENTATIY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

I  will  suggest  to  the  two  Companies  to  make  the  American 
Committee  acquainted  with  the  resuUs  of  their  dehberations  upon 
the  proposed  emendations  which  the  Committee  liave  communi- 
cated to  them. 

You  will  Ivindl}'  understand  this  letter  as  coming  from  myself 
onlj.     A  more  formal  communication  will  be  made  to  the  Ameri- 
can Committee  as  soon  as  the  Companies  meet. 
Believe  me,  my  dear  Dr.  Schaflf, 

Very  truly  yours, 

James  Cartmell. 

The  liEVKUiJXD  PniLii'  Scuaff,  D.D. 


[Keply  of  Dr.  Schaff  to  Dr.  Cartmell.] 

London  (59  Great  Eussell  Street),      [ 
January  3,  1877.  J 

My  Dear  Dr.  Cartjiell  : 

Your  second  letter,  after  my  arrival  in  England,  reached  me  on 
the  morning  of  the  iirst  of  January — which  happens  to  be  my 
birthday.  It  was,  therefore,  in  a  double  sense,  a  New  Year's 
gift,  and  filled  me  with  grateful  joy  at  the  prospect  of  a  speedy 
removal  of  the  difficulty  which  has  arisen  between  the  two  re- 
vision Committees,  and  which  might  have  been  avoided  had  not 
the  ocean  prevented  personal  conference  and  explanation. 

In  your  commuuication  of  December  30tli  you  kindly  say  that 
you  are  willing  to  recommend  the  Syndics  of  the  Cambridge  Uni- 
versity Press  to  sanction  what  is  substantially  our  second  propo- 
sal, which  I  hatl  the  lumor  to  submit  to  you  on  the  30th  of  Sep- 
tember last,  stating  it  almost  in  the  very  words  of  our  action.  So 
far  then  the  matter  is  virtually  settled,  our  consent  being  pledged 
beforehand. 

To  this  arrangement  you  append  two  observations  to  which  I 
heartily  consent,  with  the  following  exi)lanatit)n  : 

1.  You  express  the  hope  that  a  second  recension  of  the  Revised 
Version  may  bo  found  unnecessary,  and  that  but  a  single  revision 
be  substituted  for  the  present  version. 

The  same  desire  is  impiicMl  in  our  first  proposition  submitted  to 
you.  To  this  wo  shall  adhere,  and  wo  shall  resort  to  an  Ameri- 
can recension  only  in  case  of  imperative  necessity.  You  will  find 
the  American  Committee  ready  to  make  every  reasonable  conces- 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  121 

sion  to  the  harmony  and  success  of  the  work.  But,  in  order 
that  we  may  act  freely  and  intelHgently,  it  is  essential  that  the 
British  Companies  inform  us  as  early  as  convenient  of  tlie  result 
of  their  action  on  the  American  emendations  and  suggestions, 
and  thus  enable  us  to  reconsider  the  rejected  changes  and  to 
reduce  the  differences  to  a  miuinium  or  to  remove  them  alto- 
gether. We  should  also  be  provided  with  confidential  copies  of 
the  final  revision  of  the  British  Companies  before  it  is  given  to 
the  public  with  our  approval. 

2.  You  express  a  desire  for  the  speedy  completion  of  the  re- 
vision and  the  prompt  transmission  of  the  American  communi- 
cations. 

Considering  that  the  American  Committee  began  its  labors  two 
years  after  the  British  Companies,  it  has  progressed  as  fast  as  the 
natare  of  the  work  and  the  professional  duties  of  the  members 
would  permit. 

The  New  Testament  Company  has  finished  the  Gospels,  the 
Acts,  the  Catholic  Epistles,  and  the  Epistles  to  the  Romans,  i.e., 
all  the  parts  which  have  been  transmitted  to  us  from  England, 
aud — in  the  want  of  further  supply  of  material — is  now  engaged 
on  the  independent  revision  of  the  Epistle  to  the  Hebrews.  All 
our  notes  have  been  transmitted  in  printed  copies  to  the  British 
Company,  except  those  on  the  Romans — which  are  jjrobably  now 
on  the  way ;  but  I  learn  since  my  arrival  in  England  that  our 
notes  have  not  yet  been  distributed  nor  considered,  except  those 
on  the  Synoptical  Gospels.  There  is  every  prospect  that  our  re- 
vision of  the  New  Testament  will  be  completed  before  the  elapse 
of  the  decade  originally  contemplated  as  necessary  for  the 
work. 

Our  Old  Testament  Company  has  likewise  exhausted  the  sup- 
ply from  England  (the  Pentateuch  and  the  Psalms),  and  may 
shorten  its  labors  by  omitting  the  Apocrypha  if  necessary. 

With  the  experience  of  four  years'  uninterrupted  labor  both 
Companies  can  proceed  with  increasing  speed,  and  it  is  certainly 
their  desire  to  do  so. 

I  can  see  then  no  difficulty  whatever  remaining  between  us, 
and  all  that  is  left  is  the  formal  ratification  of  your  recommenda- 
tion by  the  University  Presses  and  the  British  Revision  Compa- 
nies. Our  consent,  I  repeat,  is  already  secured  b}^  our  action  of 
September  last.  I  am  quite  confident  that  after  such  ratification 
the  co-operation  of  the  English  and  American  Committees  will, 


122  DOCUMENTAKY    HISTORY    OF   THE 

with  the  blessing  of  Almighty  God,  go  on  smoothly  and  harmoni- 
ously to  the  happy  conclusion  of  their  common  work. 
"Wishing  you  many  happy  New  Years, 

I  am,  my  dear  Dr.  Cartmell, 

Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

p.  g. — I  beg  leave  to  inclose  the  draft  of  five  articles  of  agree- 
ment, wljicli  I  prepared  on  board  the  steamer  while  crossing  the 
ocean,  to  be  used  if  necessary  as  a  basis  of  negotiations.  They 
are  now  superseded,  bat  will  sliow  you  how  nearly  our  thoughts 
met,  and  how  far  the  American  Committee  is  willing  to  protect 
and  aid  the  circulation  of  the  University  editions  of  the  Kevised 
Version  during  the  period  of  the  American  copyright,  or  until  the 
adoption  of  the  revision  by  the  Churches  in  the  United  States. 


MEMORANDUM  OF  AGREEMENT. 

(third  draft  submitted   by  the   university   presses,  AUG.  3,  1877.) 

As  a  preliminary  it  seems  desirable  to  state,  that  the  primary 
object  of  the  American  Committee  and  the  two  English  C'ompa- 
nies  is  assumed  to  be.  To  obtain  one  and  the  same  revision 
of  the  present  English  Authorized  Version  of  the  Holy  Script- 
ures. 

For  this  end  the  following  arrangement  is  proposed. 

1.  The  English  Companies  will  continue  to  send  their  first  and 
provisional  version  to  the  American  Committee  from  time  to  time 
for  their  observations  thereon. 

2.  Such  observations  will  be  taken  (as  before)  into  careful  con- 
sideration by  the  English  Companies  in  connection  with  their 
second  revision.  The  English  Companies  will  then  communi- 
cate to  the  American  Committee  the  results  of  their  second  re- 
vision. 

3.  The  English  Companies  will  give  reasonable  time  for  the 
American  Committee  to  return  their  remarks  on  any  points  that 
they  may  think  important  in  these  last  communications ;  and, 
although  the  English  Companies  are  precluded  by  the  terms  of 
their  constitution  from  undertaking  a  third  revision,  they  will 
nevertheless    take    such    remarks    of    the    American    Commit- 


AMERICAlSr    BIBLE    REVISIOI^    COMMITTEE.  123 

tee  into  special  consideration  before  the  couclvision  of  their 
labors. 

4.  If  any  differences  shall  still  remain,  the  American  Com- 
mittee will  yield  its  preferences  for  the  sake  of  harmony  ;  pro- 
vided that  such  differences  of  reading  and  rendering  as  the 
American  Committee  may  represent  to  the  Englisli  Companies  to 
be  of  special  importance,  be  distinctly  stated  either  in  the  Preface 
to  the  Kevised  Version,  or  in  an  Appendix  to  the  volume,  during 
a  term  of  fourteen  years  from  the  date  of  publication,  unless  the 
American  Churches  shall  sooner  pronounce  a  deliberate  opinion 
upon  the  Kevised  Version  with  the  view  of  its  being  taken  for 
public  use. 

6.  The  English  Companies  will  communicate  to  the  American 
Committee  copies  of  their  revision  in  its  final  form  before  it  is 
given  to  the  public. 

6.  All  communications  between  the  American  Committee  and 
the  two  English  Companies  relating  to  the  work  of  revision  to 
be  regarded  (as  heretofore)  as  made  in  the  strictest  confidence. 

7.  The  American  Committee  will  in  no  case  interfere  with  the 
interests  of  the  two  University  Presses  in  the  Revised  Version  as 
finally  settled. 

They  will  do  what  lies  in  their  power  to  promote  the  freest  cir- 
culation of  the  editions  of  the  University  Presses  in  the  United 
States,  not  only  by  abstaining  from  issuing  any  editions  of  their 
own,  but  by  recognizing  the  editions  of  the  University  Presses  as 
the  authorized  editions,  and  in  all  proper  ways  favoring  such 
issues  and  discouraging  irresponsible  issues,  for  the  period  of  four- 
teen years.* 

*  In  the  first  draft  of  the  Memorandum  which  was  submitted  by  the  English 
University  Presses  to  the  American  Committee,  February  28,  1877,  the  seventh 
clause  was  as  follows  . 

"  The  American  Committee  will  in  no  case  interfere  with  the  interests  of  the 
two  University  Presses  in  the  Revised  Version  as  finally  settled,  and  will  engage 
to  protect  for  a  term  of  fourteen  years  the  editions  of  f.uch  version  against  irre- 
sponsible reprints  in  the  United  States  " 

A  second  draft,  which  was  submitted  to  Dr.  Schaff,  June  2D,  1877,  while  in 
England,  had  the  qualifying  clause,  "  with  the  understanding,  however,  that  if 
the  American  Bible  Society  should  be  ready  to  publish  an  edition  or  editions  of 
the  Revised  Version  before  the  expiration  of  the  fourteen  years,  no  objection  be 
made  to  such  action." 

The  reason  for  omitting  this  clause  in  the  third  and  last  draft  is  stated  in  Dr. 
Cartmell's  letter,  p.  124.  Dr.  Day  conducted  the  foreign  correspondence  in  be- 
half of  the  Committee  during  the  absence  of  Dr.  Schaff  in  the  Orient. 


124  DOCUMENT AKY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

8.  If  the  Revised  Version  be  adopted  by  the  American 
Churches,  it  shall,  after  such  term  of  fourteen  years  become 
public  property  in  the  United  States,  as  the  Authorized  Version 
is  noA\'. 

Note. — By  the  term  "American  Churches"  is  understood  all  religious  liodies 
in  the  United  States  which  use  the  present  Authorized  Version  iu  their  public 
services. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Cartmell  to  Dr.  Day.] 

Christ's  College  Lodge,     ) 
Cambridge,  August  3,  1877.  f 

My  Dear  Sir: 

The  observations  which  you  conveyed  to  us,  in  your  letter  in 
the  spring,  upon  the  seventh  clause  of  the  Memorandum  proposed 
for  regulating  the  relations  between  the  American  Committee  and 
the  two  Eugiish  Companies  of  Revision,  have  been  carefully  con- 
sidered. 

With  the  view  of  removing  the  objections  which  the  Committee 
have  felt  to  clause  seventh,  another  clause  has  been  drawn  up  as 
a  substitute  for  it,  which  is  expressed  in  nearly  the  words  of  your 
letter  of  March  24,  omitting,  however,  the  reference  to  the  con- 
tingency of  the  American  Bible  Society  publishing  an  edition  of 
the  Revised  Version  before  the  end  of  the  fourteen  years,  as  we 
think  it  objectionable  to  give  the  permission  suggested. 

I  send  herewith  two  copies  of  the  Memorandum  in  its  final  form, 
and  I  trust  that  it  will  be  acceptable  to  the  Committee. 

I  trust  also  that  the  Committee  will  agree  to  its  terms  by  a 
formal  resolution  to  be  entered  upon  the  minutes  of  their  pro- 
ceedings. 

Will  you  have  the  goodness  to  return  to  me  one  of  the  copies 
of  the  Memorandum,  with  a  copy  of  such  resolution  transcribed 
upon  the  third  page,  and  duly  certified  ? 

Believe  me,  my  dear  sir, 

Very  truly  yours, 

James  Cartmell. 

The  Reveuend  Dr.  Geokue  E.  Day,  Secretary  A.  R.  C. 


AMERICAlNr    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE,  125 

EATIFICATION    OF    THE    AGREEMENT    BY    THE 
AMERICAN  COMMITTEE. 

(From  t lie  Minutes  of  the  American  Committee,  Sept.  28,  1877.) 

Resolved,  That  the  Americau  Bible  Revision  Committee  hereby 
accept  and  ratify  the  agreement  contained  in  the  Memorial  from 
Dr.  Cartmell  accompanying  his  letter  of  3d  of  August,  1877,  with 
the  understanding  in  regard  to  Article  8th  that  the  American 
Committee  assume  no  responsibility  in  regard  to  the  action  of  the 
American  Churches,  or  in  regard  to  any  term  beyond  the  period 
of  fourteen  years. 


[Letter  of  Dr.  Scliaff  to  Dr.  CartmelL] 

New  York,  42  Bible  House,  Oct.  10, 1877. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Cartmell  : 

Inclosed  I  have  the  honor  to  send  you  a  copy  of  the  Memo- 
randum of  agreement  between  the  two  Committees  on  Bible  Re- 
vision, together  with  a  resolution  of  the  American  Committee 
accepting  and  ratify-in g  the  same. 

The  objection  previously  urged  against  Art.  7  was  again  con- 
sidered, viz.,  that  our  Committee  has  no  legal  power  to  protect  a 
book  or  editions  of  a  book  printed  in  a  foreign  country,  and  to 
prevent  irresponsible  reprints  which  are  likely  to  appear  sooner 
or  later.  All  we  can  do  is  to  pledge  our  moral  support  to  the 
University  editions  for  a  term  of  fourteen  years.  This  we  have 
concluded  to  do.  At  the  same  time  we  have  waived  our  un- 
doubted right  to  publish  an  American  edition,  from  which  our 
necessary  expenses  of  co-operation  might  be  refunded,  as  the 
expenses  of  the  English  Companies  are  provided  for  by  the  Uni- 
versity Presses.  We  have  made  this  sacrifice  in  the  interest  of 
peace  and  harmony. 

The  exce^Dtion  taken  to  Art.  8  is  based  upon  a  strict  construc- 
tion of  its  conditional  language,  but  it  is  not  supposed  that  the 
University  Presses  intended  to  bind  the  Committee  beyond  the 
specified  term  of  fourteen  years. 

Believe  me,  my  dear  Dr.  Cartmell, 
Yery  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

The  Rev.  James  Cartmell,  D.D. 


126  DOCUMENTAEY    HISTOEY    OF    THE 

FURTHER  ACTION  ON  THE   AGREEMENT  WITH  THE 
UNIVERSITY  PRESSES. 

[From  the  Minutes  of  Sept.  25,  1880,  p.  149.] 

A  committee  consisting  of  Drs.  Woolsej,  Crosby  and  Thayer, 
of  the  New  Testament  Company,  and  Drs.  DeWitt,  Day  and 
Chambers,  of  the  Old  Testament  Company,  was  appointed  to 
report  what  action,  if  any,  is  required  from  us  in  execution  of  our 
agreement  with  the  British  Committee  to  protect  their  interests 
on  this  side  the  ocean. 

This  committee  withdrew,  and  after  consultation  recommended 
that  the  American  Revision  Committee  adopt  the  following  paper, 
and  that  the  same  be  given  to  the  press  as  the  true  method  of 
meeting  our  engagement  with  the  British  Committee  : 

"  The  American  Committee  of  Bible  Revision  hereby  announce 
to  the  American  public  that  only  those  editions  of  the  New  Revis- 
ion, including  marginal  renderings,  which  are  published  or  ap- 
proved by  the  University  Presses  of  England  will  be  recognized 
by  us  as  the  authorized  editions." 

Voted,  That  the  decision  in  regard  to  the  time  of  publishing 
the  above  announcement  be  deferred  to  the  next  meeting  of  the 
Committee. 

[The  above  announcement  was  duly  and  widely  made  before  the  publication  of 
the  Revised  New  Testament  in  May,  1881,  but  could  not  prevent  the  appearance 
of  irresponsible  reprints.] 


Correspondence  ivitli  the  University  Presses  concernimj  the  delay  of 

the  Memorial  Copies. 

(The  University  Presses  and  their  agent  in  London  had  repeatedly  assured 
the  American  Committee  by  letter  and  cablegrams  that  they  would  for- 
ward the  Memorial  copies  in  time  for  simultaneous  distribution  to  American 
subscribers  on  orbefore  the  day  of  publication,  May  17,  1881.  The  delay  caused 
great  confusion  and  dis.satisfaction,  but  it  is  fully  explained  in  the  following 
letters,  and  relieves  the  University  Presses  and  their  agent  of  all  blame.) 

[Dr.  Sell aff  to  Professor  Price.] 

New  York,  June  8,  1881. 
Professor  Bartholomew  Price,  Oxford. 
My  Dear  Sir  : 
Finally,  the  last  four  hundred  Memorial  coi:)ies  of  the  Revised 
New  Testament  have  arrived,  nearly  three  weeks  after  its  publi- 


AMERICAlSr    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  127 

cation  in  New  York.  They  are  still  in  the  Custom  House,  and  we 
may  have  to  wait  for  them  yet  a  few  days  as  things  are  subject 
there  to  certain  rigid  rules.  In  the  meantime  our  friends  who 
subscribed  for  a  copy  in  expectation  of  receiving  it  on  the  day  of 
publication  are  getting  more  and  more  impatient.  The  first 
copies  were  not  received  in  store  till  the  19tli  of  May,  and  the 
pressure  on  Nelson  &  Co.  was  so  great  that  we  could  not  deliver 
them  till  the  book  w^as  on  sale  in  all  the  bookstores  of  the  city. 
I  could  give  no  explanation  of  the  disappointment. 

You  have  no  idea,  my  dear  Professor  Price,  to  what  an  amount 
of  censure,  abuse  and  mortification  we  have  been  exposed  by  this 
unaccountable  delay.  Letters  are  coming  in  every  day  with 
charges  of  bad  faith.  If  you  and  Mr.  Frowde  had  not  re- 
peatedly promised  that  we  should  have  the  books  in  good  time 
for  simultaneous  delivery  on  the  day  of  publication,  we  would  not 
have  ordered  them. 

The  Memorial  copy  is  beautiful  and  gives  entire  satisfaction.  The 
call  for  the  Revised  New  Testament  continues  to  be  enormous. 
Already  ten  rival  editions  of  all  sizes  and  prices  are  in  the  field, 
and  more  are  advertised.  The  whole  country  will  be  flooded  with 
copies.  Without  American  co-operation  the  sale  would  have 
been  very  limited.     The  revision  is  bound  to  succeed  in  America. 

I  am,  my  dear  sir, 
j  Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff. 

[Mr.  Frowde  to  Dr.  Scliaff.] 

Oxford  Uxiversity  Press  Warehouse,     \ 

7  Paternoster  Eow,  V 

London,  E.  C,  July  4,  1881. ) 
Dear  Sir  : 

I  wish  to  tell  you  how  deeply  I  regret  having  been  unable  to 
ship  all  your  Revised  New  Testaments  in  time  for  publication 
day,  according  to  promise.  My  calculations  were  based  upon 
promises  which  I  had  received  from  the  University  Presses  as  to 
when  the  quires  would  be  forthcoming,  and  assurances  from  the 
managers  of  our  binding  house  as  to  the  rate  at  which  the  books 
could  be  turned  out.  Much  to  my  mortification  all  these  prom- 
ises and  assurances  proved,  in  the  event,  false,  as  did  also  certain 
representations  that  were  made  to  me  respecting  the  completion 
of  the  work. 


128  THE    AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISIOlSr    CO.MMITTEE. 

All  I  can  now  do,  is  to  offer  you  raj  most  sincere  apology  for 
my  shortcomings,  and  express  my  sorrow  that  3-011  should  liave 
been  subjected  to  so  much  inconvenience  and  annoyance  in  con- 
sequence. 

Believe  me,  yours  obediently, 

Henky  Frowue. 
Rev.  Puilu'  Sciiaff,  D  D. 


[Professor  Price  to  Dr.  Scliaff.] 

Secretaby's  Room,  Clarendon  Press, 

Oxford,  August  4,  1881. 
My  Dear  Dr.  Schaff  : 

Many  thanks  for  your  last  letters.  All  moneys  due  from  3-our 
Revision  Committee  in  respect  of  the  2,100  copies  of  the  Pica 
Roj'al  8vo.  edition  of  the  Revised  New  Testament  have  been 
duly  received,  and  I  believe  that  a  proper  discharge  has  been  sent 
to  your  treasurer.  I  am  very  sorry  that  the  books  should  not 
have  reached  you  as  promptly  as  they  should  have  done,  but  the 
enormous  demand,  which  was  so  unprecedented  and  beyond  all 
expectation,  outstripped  our  power  of  production,  and  delay  in 
delivery  became  nnavoidable.  Now  there  is  a  lull,  and  we  have  a 
large  stock  in  the  warehouse  awaiting  orders. 

The  work  here  has  been  subjected  to  very  severe  criticism,  but 
has,  I  think,  come  out  substantially  unscathed  :  it  is,  if  I  ma}'  so 
say,  only  the  fringe  of  it  that  has  been  burnt.  The  real  merits  of 
the  Avork  are  acknowledged,  and  it  will  in  my  opinion  stand,  and 
eventually  replace  the  King  James  Version. 

Believe  me  to  be,  yours  very  truly, 

Bartholomew  Price. 
Rkv.  Dr.  Schaff. 

[Note. — It  is  only  necessary  to  add  in  conclusion  tlntt  the  agreement  of  the  Am. 
Committee  with  tlie  English  Companies  and  the  University  Presses,  printed  on  pp. 
132-124,  has  proved  satisfactory  to  all  parties,  and  has  been  faithfully  observed.] 


^mt  f  ourtlj. 


SUNDEY  ACTIONS  OF   THE  AMEEICAN   COMMITTEE. 


SUNDRY   ACTIONS    OF   THE    AMERICAN    COM- 
MITTEE. 

[This  part  contains  a  selection   of  resolutions  and  acts  of  fhe  American  Com- 
mittee whicli  relate  to  their  home-work.] 


^THE  MEETING  FOR   ORGANIZATION. 

[From  the  Minutes,  p.  7,  sqq.] 

Nev;  York,  Oct.  4,  1ST2. 

The  American  Committee  on  the  revision  of  the  English 
Authorized  Version  of  the  Bible  met  this  day,  at  2  p.m.,  at  the 
study  of  Dr.  Schaff,  No.  4.0  Bible  House,  to  complete  their  organ- 
ization and  make  arrangements  for  the  work  before  them. 

Present :  Drs.  DeWitt,  Green,  Hare,  Strong,  Lee,  Woolsey, 
Abbot,  Kendrick,  Thayer,  Schaff  and  Day. 

Rev.  Dr.  Woolsey  was  appointed  temporary  chairman.  After 
prayer  by  Bishop  Lee,  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read 
and  approved. 

Prof.  Cijarles  Short  and  Prof.  James  Hadley  were  unanimously 
elected,  and  took  their  seats  as  members  of  the  Committee. 

Letters  or  messages  were  received  from  Professors  Krauth, 
Lewis,  Smith,  Hackett,  Warren,  and  Riddle  expressing  their  regret 
at  not  being  able  to  be  present,  with  the  assurance  of  their  con- 
tinued readiness  to  co-operate. 

Printed  copies  of  the  revision  by  the  British  Companies,  so  far 
as  completed,  viz.,  in  the  O.  T.  of  Genesis,  Exodus  and  Leviticus, 
in  the  N.  T.  of  the  Gospels  of  Matthew,  Mark  and  Luke,  were 
then  distributed  to  the  members  of  the  American  Companies  with 
the  express  understanding  that  they  should  be  regarded  and  kept 
as  strictly  confidential. 

After  a  brief  statement  by  Dr.  Schaff  in  regard  to  the  present 
state  of  the  work  of  revision  in  Great  Britain,  and  the  desh*e  of 
the  British  Committee  to  come  into  immediate  connection  with 


132  DOCUMEISTTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

tlie  Americau  Committee,  the   following  officers  Avero   cliosen  by 

ballot : 

Rev.  Dr.  Schaff,  Chairman, 
Pkof.  George  E.  Day,  Secretary, 
Prof.  Charles  Short,  Treasurer. 

It  was  then  voted 

1.  That  the  two  Companies  hold  their  meetings  in  New  York. 

2.  That  the  officers  of  the  Committee  be  authorized  to  secure 
the  room  No.  42  in  the  Bible  House  for  one  year  or  less,  and  to 
purchase  the  necessary  furniture. 

3.  That  Profs.  Short,  Day  and  Green  be  a  committee  to  report 
upon  the  means  of  obtaining  the  necessary  funds  for  the  prosecu- 
tion of  the  work  of  the  Committee.  » 

The  two  Companies  then  separated  for  the  purpose  of  organiza- 
tion. On  meeting  again  the  0.  T.  Company  reported  that  they 
had  made  choice  of  Prof.  William  Henry  Green,  Chairman,  and 
Prof.  George  E.  Day,  Secretary  ;  the  N.  T.  Company  reported  that 
they  had  elected  Rev,  Dr.  Woolsey,  Chairman,  and  Prof.  Charles 
Short,  Secretary. 

The  Committee  then  adjourned  to  meet  at  No.  40  Bible  House, 

on  Saturday,  Nov.  2,  at  9  a.m. 

George  E.  Day,  Stcretary. 


QUALIFICATIONS  FOR  MEMBERSHIP. 

[From  the  Minutes,  p.  11.] 

New  York,  Nov.  30,  1872. 
The  Committee  met  this  day  at  a  quarter  before  10  a.m.,  at  No. 
40  Bible  House.     Present,  Dis.  Schaff,  De  Witt,  Conant,  Bishop 
Lee,  Drs.  Green,  Hare,  Day,  Strong,  Packard,  Kendrick,  Thayer 
and  Abbot. 

*  7V  *  v!-  ^\^Q  following  report  from  the  Committee  on  NeAv  Mem- 
bers, presented  by  the  Chairman,  Dr.  Schaff,  was  adopted  : 

"  The  Committee  appointed  to  consider  new  nominations  for 
membership  beg  leave  to  report  the  following   recommendations: 

"  1.  The  primary  qualification  for  membership  is,  known  profi- 
ciency in  biblical  scholarship,  in  accordance  with  rule  5  of  the 
original  commission  of  the  Convocation  of  Canterbury,  under 
which  the  American  Conmiitteo  has  been  organized. 


AMERICAN    EIBLE    KEVISIOl^    COjVEVHTTEE.  1S3 

"2.  No  religions  denomination  can  claim  representation  in  the 
Committee  on  purely  denominational  grounds. 

"  3,  It  is  j)roper  and  desirable  that,  in  due  subordination  to  the 
first  qualification,  regard  should  be  had  to  a  fair  representation  of 
the  various  denominations  using  the  Scriptures,  in  the  Authorized 
English  Version,  and  of  the  theological  and  literary  institutions 
of  the  country, 

"  4,  It  is  inexpedient,  at  present,  to  elect  scholars  residing  at  a 
great  distance  from  New  York,  unless  it  be  as  corresponding 
members. 

"5.  The  name  of  Eev.  Dr.  Crosby,  Chancellor  of  the  University 
of  New  York,  is  proposed  to  fill  the  vacancy  occasioned  in  the 
New  Testament  Company  by  the  resignation  of  the  Rev.  Prof. 
Henry  B.  Smith,  D.D." 

In  accordance  with  the  last  recommendation  in  this  report,  it 
was  voted  that  Kev.  Howard  Crosby,  D.D.,  be  nominated  for 
membership  in  this  Committee,  in  place  of  Prof.  Smith,  resigned, 
and  that  the  vote  be  taken  at  the  next  meeting. 

Prof.  Charles  A.  Aiken,  D.D.,  of  Princeton,  was  also  nominated 
for  membership  in  the  O.  T.  Company ;  Prof.  Timothy  Dwight, 
D.D.,  of  New  Haven,  in  the  N.  T.  Company,  in  place  of  Prof. 
Iladley,  deceased  ;  and  Prof.  Charles  M.  Mead,  of  Andover,  in 
the  O.  T.  Company. 

Adjourned  to  the  last  Thursday  of  December,  at  7  p.m. 

George  E.  Day,  Secretary. 


ORGANIZATION  OF  THE  FINANCE  COMMITTEE. 

[Letter  of  Dr.  Sehaff  to  the  Committee  on  Bible  Revision.  From  the  Minutes,  p.  71.] 

42  Bible  House,  New  York,  May  14th,  1875. 

Dear  Brethren  : 

I  am  happy  to  inform  you  that  I  have  succeeded  at  last  in 
securing  the  consent  of  about  twenty  gentlemen  of  different  de- 
nominations and  high  standing  in  the  coinmunit}',  to  serve  as 
a  Committee  of  Finance  to  co-operate  with  our  Committee.  After 
repeated  delays  and  disappointments,  the  first  meeting  was  held 
in  this  room  May  12th,  and  an  organization  effected.  The  Hon. 
Nathan  Bishop,  LL.D.,  was  elected  President,   and  Mr.   A.  L. 


134  DOCUMENTARY   HISTORY    OF    THE 

Taylor,  Treasurer  and  Secretary.  Mr.  Taylor  is  Treasurer  of  the 
American  Bible  Society,  and  lias  his  office  in  the  Bible  House. 
An  appeal  for  funds  has  also  been  adopted,  but  may  not  be  used 
till  my  return  from  England  ;  for  the  Finance  Committee,  before 
beginning  theh  work  in  earnest,  desire  to  know  the  result  of  our 
negotiations  with  the  British  Committee  concerning  our  precise 
status  in  the  final  revision,  as  this  will  have  a  material  bearing 
upon  the  mode  of  their  action,  and  the  character  of  the  appeal  to 
be  made  to  American  friends  of  revision. 

I  have,  therefore,  all  the  more  felt  it  my  duty  to  comply  with 
the  desire  of  the  Committee  as  expressed  in  your  resolution  of  the 
March  meeting,  and  to  proceed  to  England. 

I  shall  spare  no  pains  to  secure  as  favorable  terms  as  possible 
from  the  British  Committee  aud  fi'om  the  University  Presses.  I 
shall  sail  to-morrow  in  the  luman  steamer  "City  of  Berlin,"  and 
hope  to  return  in  August.  I  shall  make  no  claim  on  you  for  the 
reimbursement  of  my  traveling  expenses. 

To  relieve  you  from  all  financial  care  and  effort  during  the  year, 
even  if  I  should  fail  to  organize  the  Finance  Committee,  I  made 
a  special  effort  during  the  last  few  days  to  raise  funds.  I  secured 
$620  from  a  few  friends,  one  of  whom  had  already  given  $500. 
This  makes, in  all,  $1,325  raised  by  me  during  the  year  from  May, 
1874.     I  received  also  several  good  promises  for  further  aid. 

The  treasury  stands  now  as  follows  : 

Balance  in  hands  of  Prof.  Short,  May  12,     .      .      .     $1,064  06 
"        of  my  collections  paid  this  day  to  Mr.  Taylor,     324  91 

$1,388  97 

This  is  more  than  enough  for  our  expenses  till  the  close  of  the 
year.  Mr.  Taylor  awaits  your  instructions  for  arrangements  with 
Prof.  Short,  our  faithful  and  efficient  Treasurer. 

AVishing  you  all  a  pleasant  vacation,  I  am  with  great  respect 
and  affection, 

Your  brother  and  fellow- worlcer, 

PniLir   SCHAFF. 

VOTES  OF  THANKS. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Sept.  25,  1880.  (p.  151. )1 

Voted,  That  at  the  close  of  the  work  of  the  Old  Testament 
Company,  the  books  purchased   for  tlio  use  of  iho  Committee  bo 


AMERICAlSr    BIBLE   EEVISIOJST    COMMITTEE.  135 

presented  to  our  Chairman,  Rev.  Prof.  Philip  Sclmff,  D.D.,  in  tes- 
timony of  our  appreciation  of  his  important  services  and  faithful 
labors  in  the  work  of  Bible  revision. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Oct.  29,  1880.  (p.  158.)1 

Resolved,  That  the  thanks-  of  this  (N.  T.)  Company  be  rendered 
to  Dr.  Scliaff  for  the  efficient  and  constant  and  successful  labor 
which  he  has  imposed  upon  himself  in  raising  funds  to  meet  the 
expenses  of  the  American  Bible  revisers,  and  in  aiding  the  prog- 
ress of  the  work  in  various  other  ways.  We  regard  these  labors 
as  having  been  essential  and  vital  to  our  success,  and  we  ask  the 
Old  Testament  Company  to  join  us  in  the  expression  of  thanks. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Jan.  27,  1881.  (p.  160.)] 

Resolved,  That  the  Americau  Bible  Revision  Committee  recog- 
nize and  acknowledge  the  efficient  and  cordial  co-operation  which 
has  been  given  to  their  work  by  the  gratuitous  services  of  Mr. 
Andrew  L.  Taylor,  and  hereby  record  their  thanks  for  the  financial 
furtherance  of  their  labors  due  to  his  ready  activity  as  their 
treasurer. 

This  acknowledgment  was  unanimously  adopted. 


PREPARATION  OF  DOCUMENTARY  HISTORY. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Jan.  27,  1881.  (p.  161.)] 

The  President,  Dr.  Schaif,  was  requested  as  a  committee  of  this 
body  to  prepare  a  report  or  documentary  history  of  the  American 
revision  work,  with  such  reminiscences  as  the  members  might  be 
willing  to  contribute. 

RESOLUTION  OF  OCT.  28,  1881,  RELATING  TO  ANNUAL 

MEETING  AND  THE  PREFACE  AND  APPENDIX 

TO  REVISED  NEW  TESTAMENT. 

[From  the  Minutes  (p.  165.),  October  28,  1881.] 

Voted,  That  an  annual  meeting  e)f  the  Cotnmittee  be  held  in  Octo- 
ber, and  that  the  members  residing  in  the  city  of  New  York  be  a 
committee  of  arrangements  for  the  next  meeting. 

In  regard  to  an  inquiry  proposed  by  Dr.  Woolsey,  whether  it 
would  be  proper  for  individual  members  of  the  Committee  to  pub- 


136  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

lisli  unfavorable  criticisms  upon  anj  part  of  the  revision,  the  Sec- 
retary was  directed  to  enter  upon  the  minutes  the  opinion  gener- 
ally expressed  that  such  criticism  is  the  right  of  each  member  of. 
the  Committee,  but  should  be  used  in  a  way  not  to  imperil  the 
general  adoption  of  the  revision. 

In  regard  to  our  relations  to  the  English  Committee, 

Voted,  That  the  American  Committee  think  that  the  Preface  of 
the  Revised  New  Testament  ought  to  have  stated  expressly  that 
the  American  criticisms  and  suggestions  were  not  only  "  closely 
and  carefully  considered,''  but  many  of  them  adopted  also,  and  that 
the  heading  of  the  American  Appendix  ought  to  have  been  printed 
according  to  promise,  exactly  as  written,  and  not  so  changed  as  to 
represent  its  appearance  as  a  favor  instead  of  a  right,  by  virtue  of 
agreement  of  August,  1877  ;  and  that  they  trust  that  in  the  Pref- 
ace and  Appendix  which  shall  hereafter  be  issued  in  connection 
with  the  Old  Testament  these  omissions  may  not  be  repeated.* 


ACTIONS  OF  THE  TWO  COMPANIES  AT  THE  ANNUAL 
UNION  MEETING,  HELD  OCT.  2G,  1882. 

[See  Minutes,  pp.  174-176.] 
On  motion  it  was  voted  that  the  resolution  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment Company  under  date  of  April  28,  1882,t  be   approved  and 
adopted. 

■"'  This  resolution  was  by  uirection  of  the  0.  T.  Company  transmitted  to  the 
British  0.  T.  Company,  with  explanatory  note,  July  19,  18S3- 

The  heading  of  the  American  Appendix,  as  sent  to  England,  was  as  follows 
(nearly  in  the  language  of  tlie  Agreement  with  the  University  Presses) : 

"  The  American  N.  T.  Revision  Company,  having  in  many  cases  yielded  their 
preference  for  certain  readings  and  renderings,  present  the  following  instances 
in  which  they  differ  from  the  Englisli  Company,  as  in  tlieir  view  of  sufficient  im- 
portance to  be  appended  to  the  revision,  in  accordance  with  an  understanding 
between  the  Companies." 

The  English  Company,  without  tlio  knowledge  or  consent  of  the  American 
Company,  lias  sul)stituted  for  this  the  following  heading : 

"List  of  readings  and  renderings  preferred  by  tlic  American  Committee,  re- 
corded at  their  desire." 

f  This  refers  to  room  rent  and  clerk  Iiire,  and  is  as  follows  : 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Old  Testament  Company  held  April  28,  1882,  at  No.  44 
Bible  House,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Tiesoh.'cd,  That  tlie  Old  'I'cstamcnt  Company  having  heard  Dr.  Schnff  state  tlio 
existing  arrangements  with  the  American  Bible  Society  and  the  Finance  Commit- 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    EEVISION    COMMITTEE.  137 

The  report  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements  was  read,  and 
the  recommendations  it  contained  were  considered  in  their  order. 
It  was  Voted  : 

1.  That  a  committee  be  appointed,  with  full  editorial  power,  to 
make  all  necessary  arrangements  for  the  publication  of  the  history 
of  the  work  of  the  American  Bible  Revision  Committee  prepared 
by  Dr.  Schaff,  with  the  provision  that  this  history  be  not  issued 
until  the  whole  has  been  submitted  in  print  to  each  member  of 
the  committee,  and  passed  upon  at  a  meeting  of  the  joint  Com- 
mittee regularly  convened.  [The  Committee  of  Publication  ap- 
pointed under  this  resolution  wereDrs.  Schaff,  Crosby,  Chambers, 
Dwight,  Abbot,  and  Day.] 

2.  Voted,  That  two  committees  be  appointed  to  draw  up  a  digest 
of  the  actual  work  of  the  American  Companies,  as  it  appears  in 
the  published  revision,  to  be  presented  in  print  to  the  whole  Com- 
mittee, but  not  published  until  ordered,  and  that  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  dollars,  at  least,  be  paid  to  each  member 
of  said  Committee  for  this  special  service. 

[Under  this  resolution,  Bishop  Lee  and  Drs.  Abbot,  Riddle, 
Thayer,  and  Dwight  were  appointed  on  the  >Tew  Testament ;  and 
Drs.  Osgood,  Green,  Chambers,  and  DeWitt  on  the  Old  Testa- 
ment.] 

3.  Voted,  That  the  Secretaries  of  the  two  Companies  be  re- 
quested to  prepare  a  statistical  report  of  the  meetings  of  these 
Companies. 

4.  Voted,  That  the  consideration  of  the  fourth  recommendation 
be  postponed.^ 

The  President  was  requested   to   present   to  Col.   Elliott   F. 

tee,  as  detailed  in  the  memorandum  of  the  Treasurer,  Mr,  Andrew  L.  Taylor 
(dated  April  3d,  1882),  in  regard  to  the  room  occupied  by  them,  and  the  clerk  em- 
ployed by  the  Finance  Committee  in  their  service,  hereby  express  their  entire 
satisfaction  with  the  same,  and  desire  the  same  to  be  continued  till  the  revision 
work  is  completed. 
Unanimously  passed. 

W.  Henry  Green,  Chairman. 
Talbot  W.  Chambers,  Sec.  pro  tern. 

[The  memorandum  of  Mr.  Taylor  referred  to  above  and  recorded  in  the  Minutes,  pp.  169-171, 
provides  that  the  Am.  Bible  Society  release  the  Revision  Committee  of  all  charge  for  rent  in  con- 
sideration of  Dr.  Schaff's  paying  annually  "  a  proper  and  sutHcient  sum '"  for  his  private  use  of 
Rooms 42  and  44,  when  not  occupied  by  the  Committee.] 

*  The  fourth  recommendation  was  as  follows:  "  That  the  expediency  be  consid- 
ered of  the  Companies  holding  further  meetings  to  consider  what  changes  it  may 
seem  desirable  to  make  finally  in  their  work," 


l;38  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

Shepard  the  thanks  of  the  Committee  for  his  courteous  invitation 
to  a  social  reunion  at  his  residence  this  evening. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted  : 

Whereas,  the  Congress  of  the  United  States,  at  the  request  of 
the  Finance  Committee,  has  unanimously  remitted  the  usual  duty 
on  the  copies  of  the  Kevised  Version  of  the  New  Testament  im- 
ported for  the  use  of  the  Committee. 

Voted,  That  the  President  and  Secretary  of  this  body  be  au- 
thorized to  sign  the  legal  papers  required. 


ACTION  OF   THE  SECOND  ANNUAL   MEETING,   HELD 

OCT.  25,  1883. 

[See  Minutes  pp.  178-181.] 

Bible  Eevision  Committee  Kooms,     \ 

4:4:  Bible  House,         >- 

New  York,  Oct.  25,  1883. ) 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Committee,  held  at  2  o'clock  this 
day,  there  were  present,  Drs.  Schaff,  Kendrick,  Conant,  Osgood, 
Packard,  Thayer,  Chase,  Dwight,  Abbot,  Shorl;,  DeWitt,  Crosby, 
Riddle,  Chambers,  Strong,  and  Day. 

Letters  were  read  from  Drs.  Woolsey  and  Hare,  and  Bishop 
Lee,  expressing  their  regret  at  not  being  able  to  be  present. 

The  President,  Dr.  Schaff,  called  upon  Dr.  Conant  to  offer 
prayer,  after  which  the  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and 
approved. 

At  the  reception  to  be  given  to  the  Committee  this  evening  by 
Mr.  Morris  K.  Jesup,  Dr.  Crosby  and  Prof.  Thayer,  of  the  New 
Testament  Company,  were  requested  to  make  addresses ;  also 
two  members  of  the  Old  Testament  to  be  appohited  by  that  Com- 
pany.    They  were  Dr.  Chambers  and  Dr.  DeWitt. 

The  President  reported  that  the  Documentary  History  of  the 
American  Committee  on  lievision  was  in  print  and  that  copies 
had  been  sent  to  all  the  members  of  the  Committee,  whereupon 
it  was  voted  that  the  thanks  of  the  Committee  be  given  to  Dr. 
Schaff  for  his  care  and  labor  in  preparing  this  work,  and  that  the 
circulation  be  hmited  for  the  present  to  members  of  the  Commit- 
tee with  the  understanding  that  it  be  regarded  as  private  and 
confidential. 

Voted,  That  the  consideration  of  the  question  of  supplying  the 


AMEBIC  AN    BIBLE    KEVISIOIS'  COMMITTEE.  189 

subscribers  to  the  revision  of  the  Old  Testament  with   copies  of 
the  Documentary  History  be  postponed  till  the  next  meeting. 

Voted,  That  on  the  publication  of  tlie  Old  Testament  twenty 
copies  be  given  to  each  member  of  the  American  Kevision  Com- 
mittee, and  one  copy  to  each  member  of  the  Finance  Committee." 

Voted,  That  the  Old  Testament  Company  at  the  close  of  their 
labors  have  authority  to  dispose  of  the  furniture  and  other  i:)rop- 
erty  of  the  Committee,  with  the  exception  of  the  funds  in  the 
hands  of  the  Treasurer. 

Dr.  Thayer  presented  a  report  of  the  attendance  of  the  members 
of  the  New  Testament  Company  and  requested  further  informa- 
tion from  the  members,  on  which  it  was  voted  that  he  be  i-equested, 
in  co-operation  with  Prof.  Short,  to  complete  the  document. 

The  Old  Testament  Company  reported  that  the  means  did  not 
exist  of  making  a  complete  statement  of  the  attendance  upon  that 
body. 

Voted,  That  the  Old  Testament  Company  be  authorized  to  draw 
upon  the  Treasurer  for  payment  of  expenses  in  the  preparation  of 
copy  in  carrying  forward  their  work. 

In  the  absence  of  Bishop  Lee,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  ap- 
pointed to  draw  up  a  digest  of  the  actual  work  of  the  American 
Companies  as  it  appears  in  the  published  Kevision,  Prof.  Dwight 
reported  that  the  Committee  had  met  three  days  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  and  had  prepared  the  digest  proposed,  upon  which  it  was 
voted  (1)  That  the  thanks  of  the  whole  Committee  be  given  to 
this  special  Committee  for  this  valuable  work  ;  (2)  That  this 
special  Committee  be  authorized  to  draw  upon  the  Treasurer  for 
what  they  may  regard  as  a  proper  compensation  to  Prof.  Dwight 
for  his  special  part  of  the  work  on  preparing  this  paper,  in 
addition  to  what  was  appropriated  to  the  members  of  the  Com- 
mittee.    (See  p.  175.) 

Dr.  Woolsey  having  proposed  as  a  preparation  to  a  second 
revision  to  be  undertaken  by  the  American  Committee  fourteen 
years  after  the  first  appeared,  that  the  Committee  consider  the 
expediency  of  filling  up  their  number  from  time  to  time,  as  death 
removes  one  and  another,  so  that  when  the  American  Committee 
shall  be  able  to  prepare  a  second  edition,  they  have  a  full  work- 
ing power  and  be  able  to  go  forward  whether  the  British  Kevisers 
join  them  or  not, — it  was  voted,  that  the  consideration  of  this 
question  be  reserved  for  the  next  meeting. 
[*This  resolution  was  reconsidered  at  the  meeting  in  Oct.,  1884.   See  below,  p.  143.] 


140  DOCUMENTAEY    HISTOEY  OF    THE 

Prof.  Thayer  having  reported  that  some  errors  had  been  dis- 
covered iu  the  University  editions  of  the  Revision,  a  Committee, 
consisting  of  Drs.  Thayer,  Abbot  and  Riddle,  was  appointed  to 
note  any  error  or  oversight,  either  in  the  text  of  the  University 
editions  or  in  the  American  Appendix,  and  to  furnish  the  same  to 
the  University  Presses,  with  full  power  of  correction  so  far  as  the 
American  Appendix  is  concerned. 

Voted.,  That  the  President  and  Secretary  be  authorized  to  call  a 
special  meeting  of  the  Committee  at  any  time  it  may  be  neces- 
sary. 

The  Committee  then  adjourned. 

Geoege  E.  Day,  Secretary. 


ACTION  OF  A  SPECIAL  MEETING  OE  THE  TWO  COM- 
PANIES, HELD  APPJL  25,  1884. 

[See  Minutes,  pp.  182-186.] 

Bible  Revision  Committee  Rooms,       \ 
42  Bible  House,  New  York,  April  25,  1884.  j 

A  special  meeting  of  the  Committee  was  held  this  day,  at  2 
p.m.,  in  accordance  with  a  call  signed  by  the  President  and  Secre- 
tary, and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  Professor  D wight.  The 
members  present  were  Drs.  Schaff,  Lee,  Short,  Dwight,  Chase, 
Thayer,  Kendrick,  De  Witt,  Strong,  Conant,  Riddle,  Crosby, 
Chambers,  and  Day  (14). 

The  call  for  the  meeting  was  then  read,  as  follows  : 

Bible  Revision  Committee  Rooms,     ) 
Bible  House,  New  York,  April  14,  1884.  [ 
Dear  Sir  : 

You  are  respectfully  requested  to  attend  a  special  meeting  of 
the  Revision  Committee  in  this  room  on  Friday,  April  25,  at  2 
P.M.  (the  day  when  the  O.  T.  Comp.  expect  to  complete  their 
work),  for  the  following  purposes  : 

1.  To  pay  a  suitable  tribute  of  respect  to  the  memory  of  our 
departed  brother.  Dr.  Abbot. 

2.  To  act  on  the  proposal  of  Dr.  Woolsey,  laid  over  at  the  last 
meeting,  concerning  further  work  of  the  Committee. 

3.  To  decide  whether  or  not,  and  when,  the  Documentary  His- 
tory is  to  be  published. 


AMEBIC  AN    BIBLE    KE  VISION  COMMITTEE.  141 

■1.  To  appoint  a  delegation  to  attend  the  final  meeting  of  the 
O.  T.  Comp.  in  London  in  July  next. 

The  Committee  will  dine  together  on  Friday  evening  after  the 
close  of  the  session,  and  the  expenses  of  the  members  will  be 
paid  by  the  Treasurer. 

Very  truly  yours, 

Philip  Schaff, 
George  E.  Day. 

The  minutes  of  the  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved.  Let- 
ters were  read  from  Drs.  Woolsey,  Hare,  and  Packard,  expressing 
regret  at  their  inability  to  attend. 

The  following  tribute  of  regard  to  the  memory  of  Dr.  Ezra 
Abbot,  presented  by  Dr.  Thayer,  of  the  New  Testament  Company, 
w%as  unanimously  adopted,"^  and  a  copy  was  directed  to  be  sent  to 
his  widow,  and  also  to  be  furnished  to  the  press ;  copies  also  to 
be  sent  to  the  British  Revisers  and  to  members  of  the  American 
Committee  not  present. 

On  the  proposal  of  Dr.  Woolsey,  remarks  were  made  in  favor  of 
some  such  provision  by  Drs.  Crosby,  Day,  Thayer,  Dwight  and 
Chambers,  but  any  formal  action  at  present  was  thought  to  be 
premature,  and  the  further  consideration  of  the  matter  was  post- 
poned till  the  annual  meeting  in  October. 

An  interesting  conversation  took  place  on  the  importance  of 
giving  fuller  information  to  the  public  in  regard  to  the  Greek  test 
of  the  Revision,  for  the  purpose  of  correcting  erroneous  im- 
pressions. 

It  was  understood  that  Dr.  Thayer  Avould  soon  make  some 
communication  of  this  kind. 

In  regard  to  the  Documentary  History  of  the  Revision  v>liich 
subscribers  to  the  Old  Testament  had  been  encouraged  to  expect, 
it  was  voted  that  instead  of  giving  the  documents  in  full,  a  history 
of  the  Revision,  based  upon  the  original  documents,  and  including 
such  of  til  em  as  seems  advisable,  should  be  ])repared.  Bishop 
Lee  and  Professors  Dwight  and  Day  were  appointed  under  this 
resolution. 

Several  members  of  the  Committee,  expecting  to  visit  Europe  in 
the  summer,  or  being  already  abroad,  viz.,  Drs.  Schatf,  Green, 
Day,  Aiken,  Chambers,  and  Mead,  it  was  voted  that  they  be  ap- 

[■■'  See  the  last  of  the  Memorial  Papers  in  the  Fifth  Part,  p.  155.] 


142  DOCUMENTARY   HISTORY    OF   THE 

pointed  a  delegation  to  attend  tlie  final  meeting  of  the  British  Old 
Testament  Company  in  London  the  first  week  in  July. 

The  members  of  the  Committee  residing  in  New  York  were  re- 
quested to  make  all  needful  arrangements  for  the  annual  meeting 
in  October.     The  Committee  then  adjourned. 

Geo.  E.  Day,  Secretary. 


ACTION    or   THE   THIRD   ANNUAL    MEETING,  HELD 
OCTOBEE  28,  1884 

[See  Minutes,  pp.  187-188.J 

42  Bible  House,         ) 
New  York,  October  28,  1884.  f 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Revision  Committee,  postponed  at 
the  recommendation  of  the  Old  Testament  Company  to  this  day, 
was  held  at  1\  p.m. 

Present  :  Bishop  Lee  and  Drs.  Schaff,  Packard,  Osgood,  Chase, 
Short,  Dwigbt,  Crosby,  Riddle,  Green,  Strong,  Aiken,  Chambers, 
Thayer,  DeWitt,  Kendrick  and  Day. 

After  prayer  by  the  Pi-esident,  Dr.  Schaff,  the  minutes  of  the 
last  meeting  were  read  and  approved. 

Dr.  Schaff  made  a  statement  in  regard  to  the  funds,  on  which 
it  was  voted  that  instead  of  twenty  copies  of  the  Revised  Old 
Testament  to  be  furnished  to  each  member  of  the  Committee, 
as  ordered  at  a  previous  meeting,  the  number  be  limited  to  ten 
copies  to  each  member. 

The  Committee,  consisting  of  Bishop  Lee  and  Professors  Dwight 
and  Day,  appointed  to  prepare  a  history  of  the  revision  and  of 
the  connection  between  the  British  and  American  Committees  on 
the  basis  of  the  documents  and  correspondence  arranged  and  pre- 
sented by  Dr.  Schaff  at  a  previous  meeting,  reported  through 
Prof.  Dwight  the  draft  of  such  a  history.  After  remarks  by  Dr. 
Crosby,  Dr.  Schaff,  Dr.  Osgood  and  others,  expressing  their  satis- 
faction, it  was  unanimously  voted  that  the  Documentary  History 
of  the  Revision  which  has  been  presented  be  adopted  and  printed, 
and  the  copies  of  the  same  be  sent  to  those  who  have  subscribed 
to  the  Memorial  Edition  of  the  Revised  Version. 

In  regard  to  the  election  of  new  members,  the  consideration  of 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    KEVISION  COMMITTEE.  143 

which  was  postponed  at  the  hist  meeting,  it  was  voted  that  it  is 
inexpedient  to  take  action  on  this  subject  at  present. 

Prof,  Thayer  was  authorized  and  requested  to  send  to  the 
University  Presses  in  England  any  errors  he  may  discover  in  the 
American  Appendix  to  the  Revision  of  the  New  Testament. 

The  Committee  then  adjourned,  to  meet  at  the  call  of  the  Presi- 
dent and  Secretary. 

Geo.  E.  Day,  Secretary. 


^art  f  ifti). 


MEMOEIAL  PAPEES. 


MEMORIAL   PAPERS. 


DE.  HACKETT. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Nov.  26,  1875,  p.  89.] 

A  committee  consisting  of  Drs.  Kendrick,  Woolsey  and  Abbot 
was  appointed  to  di'aft  a  minute  commemorative  of  our  associate, 
Br.  Hackett,  deceased  since  our  last  meeting.  Tliey  prepared  tlie 
following  paper,  wliicli  was  ordered  to  be  placed  on  our  records 
and  a  copy  to  be  given  to  the  press  for  publication : — 

"  With  profound  regret  this  Committee  have  to  record  the  death, 
since  their  last  session,  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Horatio  Balch  Hackett, 
one  of  our  country's  most  eminent  biblical  scholars  aiid  a  loved 
and  honored  member  of  this  board  of  revision.  Dr,  Hackett  was 
born  in  Salisbury,  Mass.,  December  27, 1808.  Having  been  grad- 
uated with  high  honor  from  Amherst  College  and  Audover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  he  served  for  four  years,  first  as  adjunct  Professor 
of  the  Latin  and  Greek  Languages  and  Literature  in  Newton  Theo- 
logical Institution,  and  during  the  last  six  years  as  Professor  of  New 
Testament  Exegesis  in  the  Rochester  Theological  Seminary.  In  all 
the  positions  his  varied  duties  were  discharged  with  eminent  ability. 

"  As  a  biblical  scholar  he  rose  rapidly  to  take  rank  with  the 
ablest  scholars  in  our  own  and  other  lands.  As  a  teacher  he  was 
no  less  distinguished,  nuiting  exact  learning  and  vigorous  method 
with  a  devout  reverence  for  the  sacred  Word,  and  an  intense  en- 
thusiasm that  kindled  into  life  even  the  driest  grammatical  details, 
he  made  his  lecture-room,  to  all  who  frequented  it,  a  place  of  un- 
wonted quickening  and  inspiration.  As  an  author,  his  various 
contributions  to  sacred  literature  have  been  exceedingly  valuable. 
His  Commentary  on  the  Acts  is  regarded  abroad  as  well  as  at 
home  as  of  standard  excellence  ;  and  his  enlarged  edition  (under- 
taken in  conjunction  with  Dr,  Ezra  Abbot)  of  Smith's  Dictionary 
of  the  Bible,  to  the  English  edition  of  which  he  was  a  contributor, 
has  greatly  enhanced  the  value  of  that  excellent  work,  and  won 
for  him  the  lasting  gratitude  of  students  of  the  Scriptures. 

"Dr.  Hackett  came  to  feel  deeply  the  need  of  improving  our  ex- 
cellent standard  version  of  the  Bible.     For  several  years  he  lent 


148  DOCU-MENTARY    IIISTOEY    OF    THE 

liis  valuable  services  to  the  American  Bible  Union,  and  when  the 
American  Board  of  Revisers  was  organized  to  co-operate  with  the 
English  Revision  Committee,  he  entered  heartily  into  the  work  as 
a  member  of  the  New  Testament  section  of  our  bod}'.  Though 
his  increasingly  dehcate  health  forbade  his  uniform  attendance  at 
the  meetings,  yet  his  presence  was  always  warmly  greeted  by  his 
colleagues  in  revision,  and  to  his  opinions,  expressed  with  invari- 
able modesty,  was  accorded  the  weight  due  to  ripe  learning  and 
an  admirably  balanced  judgment. 

"In  his  personal  character  he  was  no  less  estimable.  Retiring 
as  he  was  in  disposition  and  living  in  scholarly  seclusion,  few 
knew  how  deep  and  warm  were  his  affections,  and  how  tender  his 
sympathies ;  how  refined  were  his  tastes  and  how  varied  his  culture ; 
how  wide  was  his  outlook,  and  how  just  were  his  judgments  of  pub- 
lic affairs ;  how  fervid  was  his  patriotism,  and  how  humble  and 
unaffected  was  his  Jjiety ;  in  short,  what  a  wealth  of  noble  and 
Christian  qualities  lay  hidden  beneath  that  quiet  exterior.  In  all 
his  relations  as  a  man,  a  teacher,  a  scholar  and  a  Christian  he 
commanded  at  once  love  and  veneration,  and  his  later  pupils  were 
wont  to  trace  in  his  gentle  and  chastened  enthusiasm  a  resemblance 
to  the  '  Beloved  Disciple '  whose  writings  he  so  genially  expounded. 
Nobly  has  he  accomplished  his  earthly  work,  and  in  the  higher 
sphere  to  which  death  has  translated  him,  he  is  enjoying,  we 
doubt  not,  the  fruits  of  a  life  of  faithful  consecration  to  the  sei-v- 
ice  of  the  Church  and  the  Church's  Lord.  With  heartfelt  grati- 
tude to  Him  who  has  given  to  the  Church  the  blessing  of  such  a 
life  we  place  on  record  this  imperfect  tribute  to  his  high  scholarly 
and  personal  excellence." 

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  of  this  Committee  be  requested  to 
transmit  to  the  family  of  Dr.  Hackett  a  copy  of  the  above  minute, 
with  the  assurance  of  our  tender  sympathy  with  them  in  their 
sore  bereavement,  and  our  prayer  that  the  Heavenly  Comforter  may 
impart  to  them  His  abundant  consolations. 

George  E.  Day,  Sec. 


PROFESSOR  TAYLER  LEWIS. 

[From  tlio  Minutes,  Jan.  25,  1878,  pp.  133,  134.] 

42  Bible  House,  New  York,  Jan.  25,  1878. 
The  following  paper  respecting  the  life  and  services  of  the  late 
Prof.  Tayler  Lewis  was  adopted  unanimously.     It  was  also  voted 


AJVIERICAISr    BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  149 

that  it  be  recorded  in  the  minutes  and  published  in  the  rehgious 
newspapers : 

"  The  death  of  so  distinguished  a  scholar  as  Dr.  Lewis  calls  for 
a  passing  tribute  from  his  brethren  of  the  American  Bible  Re- 
vision Committee.  While  his  physical  infirmities  limited  his  co- 
operation in  our  work  to  the  occasional  communication  of  written 
suggestions,  these  were  always  highly  prized,  and  his  interest  in 
the  progress  and  success  of  the  work  was  by  many  signs  known 
to  be  deep  and  genuine.  It  was  a  source  of  much  regret  to  the 
Old  Testament  Company  that  they  could  not  enjoy  more  frequently 
and  abundantly  the  results  of  his  prolonged  and  profound  biblical 
and  philological  studies. 

"From  the  profession  of  the  law,  which  he  had  entered.  Dr. 
Lewis  early  turned  to  the  more  congenial  work  of  a  scholar, 
teacher,  and  man  of  letters.  For  more  than  forty  years  he  was  by 
profession  a  teacher,  and  was  nearly  the  whole  of  this  period  con- 
nected first  with  the  University  of  New  York  and  later  with 
Union  College.  His  special  department  was  that  of  the  Greek 
language  and  literature  ;  and  after  disabling  infirmities  cut  him 
off  from  the  ordinary  work  of  the  recitation  room,  his  own  genius 
and  enthusiasm  continued  to  inspire  class  after  class  in  the  lecture 
room,  and  in  his  parlors,  with  something  of  his  own  admiration 
for  Greek  literature  and  philosophy.  His  studies  in  Hebrew  and 
the  cognate  languages  began  early  and  were  prosecuted  with  char- 
acteristic energy  and  with  rich  results.  His  well-worn  Hebrew 
Bible  bears  witness,  through  his  memoranda,  to  the  frequency 
with  which  he  had  many  years  ago  re-read  it  in  course.  And  he 
left  behind  him  numerous  and  carefully  elaborated  comments  on 
many  of  its  difficult  passages.  The  Committee  cannot  withhold 
the  expression  of  the  wish  that  these  notes,  or  a  judicious  selec- 
tion from  them,  may  yet  be  published,  in  addition  to  the  biblical 
studies  which  he  had  given  to  the  public  during  his  life.  Dr. 
Lewis  was  no  recluse.  In  philosophical,  pohtical  and  theological 
discussion  he  was  deeply  interested,  and  with  unusual  versatility 
and  power  took  ready  part  in  such  debates.  lie  was  not  merely 
a  loyal  and  valiant,  but  an  aggressive,  champion  of  what  he  held 
to  be  the  truth.  Especially  were  all  his  energies  and  resources 
ready  for  the  most  prompt  and  vigorous  use  in  maintaining  the 
supremacy  of  the  "Word  of  God  over  all  human  thinking  and  liv- 
ing. With  himself  has  passed  away  one  who  in  the  variety  and 
extent  of  his  resources  and  attainments  has  reflected  honor  upon 


150  DOCUMENTARY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

American  scholarsliip,  and  wliose  memor}'  will  be    cherished   by 
all  wlio  appreciate  his  faithful  labors  for  Christ." 


DE.  NATHAN  BISHOP. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Sept.  25,  1880,  p.  148.] 

The  following  paper,  prepared  by  Dr.  Schaff,  commemorative  of 
the  late  Hon.  Nathan  Bishop,  LL.D.,  was  adopted  : 

"  The  American  Revision  Committee  record  with  profound  sor- 
row the  death  of  Dr.  Nathan  Bishop,  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Finance,  who  was  called  to  his  reward  August  7, 1880,  at  Sara- 
toga, aged  seventy-two  years. 

"  We  share  iti  the  universal  esteem  for  his  pure  and  consistently 
Christian  character,  his  amiable  and  catholic  spirit,  his  sound 
judgment,  his  generous  liberality  in  promoting  every  good  cause. 
He  was  a  man  who  delighted  in  doing  good  without  ostentation, 
from  principle  and  from  pure  love  to  his  Lord  and  his  fellow-men. 
He  took  a  deep  and  intelligent  interest  in  the  revision  movement 
from  the  start,  and  never  doubted  for  a  moment  its  iinal  success. 
He  was  the  most  liberal  and  cheerful  contributor  toward  the  ex- 
penses of  our  Committee,  and  considered  it  an  honor  and  privilege 
to  promote  a  cause  so  sacred  and  important  to  all  readers  of  the 
Word  of  God.  His  name  is  identified  with  the  labors  of  this 
Committee,  and  his  memory  will  be  cherished  by  all  Avho  person- 
ally knew  him. 

"  Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  this  minute  be  sent  to  the  widow  of 
Dr.  Bishop." 


DR.  WASHBURN. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Get.  28,  1881,  p.  103.] 

The  following  memorial  paper,  prepared  by  Bishop  Lee,  on  the 
death  of  Rev.  Dr.  Washburn,  was  read  and  adopted,  and  the  Sec- 
retary w\as  directed  to  send  a  copy  of  the  sanio  to  his  widow,  and 
also  to  the  public  press  : 

"  Since  the  conclusion  of  the  labors  of  the  New  Testament  Com- 
pany, it  has  pleased  Almighty  God  to  take  out  of  this  Avorld  one 
of  their  number,  the  Reverend  Edward  A.  Washburn,  D.D.,  Rector 
of  Calvary  Church,  in  the  City  of  New  York. 

"  It  is  the  desire  of  those  associated  so  long  with  him  in  this 


AMERICAN"   BIBLE    REVISION    COMMITTEE.  151 

important  work  to  place  upon  their  records  an  expression  of  their 
high  estimate  of  the  character  of  their  lamented  fellow-laborer, 
and  of  their  affectionate  regard  for  his  memory. 

"  Dr.  Washburn  was  a  man  whose  marked  ability  and  noble 
qualities  commanded  universal  respect,  while  his  ready  sympathy 
and  kindliness  endeared  him  to  a  large  circle  of  friends.  He  was 
a  scholar,  assiduous  and  well  trained,  whose  powerful  mind  readily 
grasped  and  fed  upon  knowledge,  both  secular  and  sacred.  As  a 
faithful  pastor  and  an  instructive,  forcible  preacher,  he  stood  in 
the  foremost  rank.  In  the  pursuit  of  truth  he  was  honest  and 
earnest,  and  in  the  avowal  of  his  convictions  fearless  and  out- 
spoken. In  his  whole  intercourse  he  was  remarkably  transparent, 
open  and  genuine — a  man  to  be  admired,  trusted  and  loved. 

"  In  the  present  revision  of  the  English  Bible  his  interest  was 
enlisted  from  the  beginning.  He  took  an  early  and  decided 
stand  as  its  advocate,  and  the  first  public  meeting  in  this  country 
in  behalf  of  the  undertaking  was  held  in  his  church.  Disease, 
against  which  ho  manfally  struggled  through  a  large  part  of  his 
life,  drove  him  to  a  foreign  land  in  search  of  health  soon  after  the 
labors  of  the  Committee  commenced,  and  after  his  return  the  same 
cause  often  interrupted  his  attendance  at  our  meetings.  It  has 
been  a  source  of  great  regret  to  his  associates  that  they  lost  so 
much  of  the  advantage  that  would  have  accrued  from  his  more 
frequent  co-operation.  But  when  he  could  be  with  us  his  pres- 
ence was  ghidly  welcomed,  and  his  suggestions  highly  valued. 
Upon  his  connection  with  this  work  we  look  back  with  satisfaction 
and  gratitude.  He  was  not  permitted  to  hail  the  public  appear- 
ance of  the  volume  to  whicli  he  had  given  so  much  time  and 
thought,  but  its  saving  truths  were  dear  to  his  heart,  and  we  can- 
not doubt  through  divine  grace  were  instrumental  in  preparing 
him  for  the  event  which  came  so  unexpectedly. 

"  Kemoved  in  the  fulness  of  his  ripened  powers  and  in  the  height 
of  his  usefulness,  his  end  might  seem  to  us  premature,  but  we  bow 
in  submission  to  His  will  who  doeth  all  things  well." 


DR.  BUKE. 

[From  the  Minutes,  Oct.  26,  1882,  pp.  175-177.] 

The  following    tribute  to  the  memory  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan 
Kelsey  Burr,  D.D.,  of  the  New  Testament  Company,  deceased 


152  DOCUMETiTTAEY    HISTORY    OF    THE 

since  our  last  meeting,  presented  by  Dr.  Strong,  was  unanimously 
adopted,  and  directed  to  be  placed  upon  our  minutes,  with  the 
request  to  Dr.  Strong  to  communicate  the  same  to  the  surviving 
members  of  Dr.  Burr's  family  : 

"  The  Eev.  Jonathan  Kelsey  Burr,  D.D.,  a  member  of  the  New 
Testament  Company  of  the  American  Bible  Revision  Committee, 
who  died  April  24,  1882,  was  born  in  Middletown,  Conn.,  Septem- 
ber 21,  1825,  and  graduated  from  the  Wesleyan  University  in  1845, 
and  in  1846  was  a  student  in  the  Union  Theological  Seminary. 
With  the  exception  of  the  last  two  years  of  his  life,  when  he  was 
gradually  failing  with  consumption,  he  spent  the  intermediate 
years  in  the  active  ministry  of  the  JMethodist  Episcoftal  Church, 
occupying  several  of  the  most  important  pulpits  within  the  bounds 
of  the  New  Jersey  and  the  Newark  Conferences.  As  a  preacher 
and  pastor  he  held  a  high  rank  in  his  denomination,  and  was  uni- 
versally respected  and  beloved  for  his  scholarly  attainments,  his 
uniform  urbanity,  and  his  diligent  habits.  He  was  the  friend  of 
the  rich  and  the  poor  alike,  and  was  equally  welcome  and  at 
home  in  the  elegant  mansion  and  in  the  humblest  dwelling.  He 
was  a  man  of  extensive  reading,  of  refined  taste,  and  of  thorough 
culture,  as  well  as  of  deep  but  undemonstrative  piety.  Modesty 
combined  with  activity  was  a  marked  feature  of  his  character, 
and  his  conduct  in  every  relation  of  life  evinced  a  genuine  hearti- 
ness and  an  earnest  sobriety  which  were  the  result  of  miich  self- 
discipline,  a  just  estimate  of  his  own  powers  and  duties,  and  a 
manly  integrity  of  purpose.  His  literary  qualification  for  the 
position  which  he  filled  among  us  with  so  much  ability,  credit  and 
acceptableness,  was  also  slioAvn  in  a  very  excellent  series  of  anno- 
tations on  the  book  of  Job,  and  in  occasional  contributions  to  the 
religious  journals.  His  estimable  widow  has  since  deceased,  and 
two  promising  sons  arc  thus  left  entire  orphans.  We  record  this 
memorial  in  token  of  our  appreciation  of  his  character  and  serv- 
ices, and  our  sympathy  Avith  his  surviving  friends." 


DE.  KRAUTH. 


At  the  regular  monthly  meeting  of  the  Old  Testament  Company 
of  the  American  Bible  Revision  Company  lield  in  the  Bible  House, 
New  York,  February  23d,  1883,  the  following  tribute  to  the  memory 
of  our  late  associate,  the  Rev.  Dr.  Charles  P.  Kranth,  Vice-Provost 


AMEKICAlSr    BIBLE   REVISIOJS-    COMMITTEE.  153 

of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  was  adopted  and  directed  to 
be  presented  to  the  whole  Committee  at  their  next  annual  meet- 
ing in  order  to  be  placed  upon  their  records. 

George  E.  Day,  Secretary. 

Charles  Porterfield  Krauth,  D.D.,  LL.  D. 
Born  March  17th,  1823,  in  Martiusburg,  Va. 
Died  January  2d,  1883,  in  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

His  paternal  grandfather  came  to  this  country  from  Germany 
in  the  latter  j)art  of  the  last  century,  and  was  teacher  and  organ- 
ist in  one  of  the  Keformed  churches.  His  father,  Charles  Philip 
Krauth  (1797-1867),  was  successively  pastor  of  Lutheran  churches 
in  Martinsburg  and  Philadelphia,  President  of  Pennsylvania  Col- 
lege at  Gettysburg,  and  Professor  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
the  same  place.  Our  friend  and  associate  was  his  oldest  son,  and 
consequently  enjoyed  great  advantages  in  his  early  training.  He 
was  graduated  in  1839  from  the  college  of  which  his  father  was 
president,  and  immediately  commenced  theological  studies  under 
Drs.  Schmucker  and  Schmidt.  Having  concluded  these  with  high 
honor,  he  was  ordained  in  1S42,  and  became  pastor  of  a  church  in 
Baltimore.  Subsequently  he  held  the  same  office  in  Winchester, 
Va.,  and  in  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  In  1859  he  was  called  to  St.  Mark's 
Lutheran  Church,  Philadelphia,  and  two  years  afterward  became 
editor  of  the  Lutheran  and  3Iissionary,  through  which  he  made 
himself  widely  felt  throughout  the  religious  press.  In  1864  he 
was  appointed  Professor  of  Theology  and  Church  History  in  the 
new  Seminary  then  established  in  Philadelphia.  In  1868  he  was 
elected  to  the  chair  of  Moral  and  Intellectual  Philosophy  in  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania,  and  five  j-ears  afterward  was  made 
Vice-Provost  of  the  institution.  In  the  discharge  of  the  duties 
of  these  various  offices,  together  with  occasional  preaching  of  the 
Word,  he  continued  until  his  death,  constantly  growing  in  influ- 
ence and  usefulness  as  time  developed  his  rare  qualities  in  guid- 
ing and  stimulating  the  young  men  under  his  charge.  But  his 
earthly  tabernacle  proved  frailer  than  one  would  have  supposed 
from  his  commanding  presence.  He  sought  to  gain  relief  from 
growing  infirmities  by  a  visit  to  Europe  in  the  year  1880,  but  the 
improvement  was  superficial  and  short-lived,  and  on  the  2d  day 
of  this  year,  after  an  illness  of  a  fortnight,  he  quietly  fell  asleep  in 
Jesus. 

Our  friend  did  not  round  out  the  usual  measure  of  man's  days, 


154:  DOCUMENl^AllY    IIISTOEY    OF    THE 

but  be  performed  enough  work  to  satisfy  the  most  exacting  de- 
mand. His  course,  whether  in  the  pulpit,  or  the  editorial  room, 
or  the  professorial  chair,  was  one  of  incessant  activity.  His  pub- 
lished writings  are  numerous.  They  consist  not  only  of  such 
elaborate  volumes  as  the  Conservative  Reformation  and  its  Theol- 
ogy^ the  translation  of  Tholuck's  Commentary  on  the  Gospel  of  John, 
the  enhirgement  of  Fleming's  Vocabulary  of  Philosophy^  a  new 
edition  of  Berkeley's  Philosophical  Writings,  but  also  of  various 
minor  treatises  touching  questions  in  Theology  and  Church  His- 
tory, by  which  he  exerted  a  vast  influence  in  his  own  denomina- 
tion. His  mind,  strong  and  versatile  by  nature,  was  assiduously 
cultivated  from  early  youth.  His  studies  were  confined  mainly  to 
theology  in  its  various  branches,  to  philosophy  and  literature  in 
its  wide  acceptation.  He  had  accumulated  a  very  large  private 
library  (14,000  volumes)  which  was  a  selection  as  weU  as  a  collec- 
tion. He  was,  consequently,  unusually  well  informed  on  all  mat- 
ters relating  to  his  chosen  sphere,  being  a  careful  as  well  as  a 
constant' reader.  This  fact  made  him  a  formidable  antagonist  in 
any  question  respecting  the  history  of  opinion. 

In  his  theological  views  he  was  a  Lutheran  of  the  Lutherans, 
being  a  zealous  defender  and  maintaiuer  of  the  Augustana,  pure 
and  simple,  and  he  headed  the  reaction  which  has  been  going  on 
for  a  generation  in  our  country  against  the  influences  which  were 
thought  to  assail  the  integrity  or  the  authority  of  the  venerable 
Confession  of  Augsburg.  Bnt  while  he  strove  with  all  his  might 
for  the  preservation  of  Lutheran  doctrine  and  order,  he  cherished 
a  catholic  spirit,  and  took  a  cordial  interest  in  the  prosperity  of 
all  evangelical  Christians.  He  became  a  member  of  this  body 
from  the  commencement,  and  although  hindered,  sometimes  by 
professional  engagements,  at  others  by  the  state  of  his  health, 
from  being  as  regular  in  attendance  as  was  desirable,  his  presence 
M'as  always  an  advantage,  and  his  large  acquaintance  Avith  the 
early  English  versions  of  the  Scriptures,  and  with  the  best  idioms 
of  our  tongue,  made  his  suggestions  often  of  very  great  value  in 
the  settlement  of  a  disputed  issue.  In  personal  intercourse  he 
was  one  of  the  most  delightful  of  companions,  genial,  courteous, 
full  of  resources,  sparkling  with  wit  and  anecdotes,  yet  alwnj^s  pre- 
serving the  elevated  tone  of  a  Christian  gentleman.  It  v^-ould 
have  been  gratifying  if  he  had  been  spared  to  witness  the  termi- 
nation of  our.  labors,  and  rejoice  with  us  in  a  successful  result. 
But  the  Lord  saw  fit  to  order  events  otherwise,  and  we  bow  in 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    REVISION    COHIMITTEE.  155 

submission  to  His  holy  will,  taking  a  melancholy  pleasure  in  put- 
ting on  record  this  testimonial  to  our  departed  brother.  His 
death  is  a  great  loss  not  only  to  the  important  religious  body  of 
which  he  was  a  shining  ornament,  but  also  to  the  whole  Church  of 
Christ  in  this  land,  and  to  the  republic  of  letters.  Our  country 
has  produced  few  men  who  united  in  their  own  persons  so  many 
of  the  excellences  which  distinguish  the  scholar,  the  theologian, 
the  exegete,  the  debater,  and  the  leader  of  his  brethren,  as  did 
our  accomplished  associate.  His  learning  did  not  smother  his 
genius,  nor  did  his  philosophical  attainments  impair  the  simplicity 
of  his  faith.  All  gifts  and  all  acquisitions  were  sedulously  made 
subservient  to  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  He  illustrated  his  teachings 
by  his  life,  and  has  left  behind  him  a  memory  precious  and  fra- 
grant not  only  to  his  own  large  communion  but  to  multitudes 
beyond  its  pale. 


EZRA  ABBOT,  D.D.,  LL.D. 

Born  in  Jackson,  Maine,  April  28,  1819. 
Died  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  March  21,  1884. 

"The  grass  icitlicrcth,  and  the  flower  falleth  ;  hut  the  icord  of  the  Lord  dbideth 

forever." 

In  the  death  of  Professor  Abbot  the  New  Testament  Revision 
Company  are  summoned  a  third  time,  since  the  completion  of 
their  work,  to  mourn  the  departure  of  one  of  their  number.  "With 
their  associates  of  the  Old  Testament  Company  they  would  rever- 
ently bow  to  the  Divine  appointment,  and  thoughtfully  take  to 
heart  its  admonitions. 

The  secluded  life  of  Dr.  Abbot,  and  his  singularly  modest  and 
retiring  disposition,  rendered  him  almost,  if  not  quite,  a  stranger 
to  every  one  of  us  till  we  entered  on  our  work  together  in  these 
rooms.  In  general  deliberations  respecting  matters  of  business, 
and  particularly  in  those  discussions,  alike  animated  and  delicate, 
which  involved  our  relations  to  the  English  Revisers  and  the 
University  Presses,  his  voice  was  heard  but  seldom.  Yet  when- 
ever he  spoke,  his  characteristic  clearness  of  apprehension,  his 
accm-ate  and  complete  recollection  of  facts,  his  judicial  impar- 
tiality and  dispassionateness,  and  above  all  his  personal  willing- 
ness to  become  anything  or  nothing,  if  so  be  the  Word  of  God  in 


156  HISTORY    OF   THE    BIBLE    REVISION"  COiOIITTEE 

its  purity  miglit  liave  tlie  freer  course,  seldom  failed  to  become 
manifest. 

His  sphere  of  conspicuous  service,  however,  was  the  Eevision 
work.  Always  one  of  the  first  in  his  place  at  the  table,  and  one 
of  the  last  to  quit  it,  he  brought  with  him  thither  the  results  of 
careful  preparation.  His  suggestions  were  seldom  the  prompt- 
ings of  the  moment.  Hence  they  always  commanded  considera- 
tion ;  often  secured  instant  adoj)tion.  Well  versed  in  the  re- 
sources of  our  ancestral  toDgue,  gifted  with  an  ear  for  its  rhythm, 
and  trained  to  a  nice  discrimination  in  his  use  of  it,  he  rendered 
appreciable  service  in  securiug  for  the  new  translation  certain 
felicities  of  expression  to  which  its  critics,  amid  their  clamorous 
censure  of  its  defects,  have  hitherto  failed  to  render  due  recog- 
nition. But  it  was  in  questions  affecting  the  Greek  text  that  Dr. 
Abbot's  exceptional  gifts  and  attainments  were  pre-eminently 
helpful.  Several  of  his  essays  on  debated  passages,  appended  to 
the  printed  reports  of  our  proceedings  which  w^ere  forwarded  from 
time  to  time  to  the  brethren  in  England,  are  amoDg  the  most 
thorough  discussions  of  the  sort  which  are  extant,  won  immediate 
respect  for  American  scholarship  in  this  department,  and  had  no 
small  influence  in  determining  that  form  of  the  sacred  text  which 
will  ultimately,  we  believe,  find  acceptance  with  all  Christian 
scholars. 

To  his  distinction  as  a  scholar,  Dr.  Abbot  added  rare  excellence 
as  a  Christian.  Such  chastened  sweetness  of  disposition,  such 
disciplined  regard  for  the  sensibilities  of  his  associates,  such 
studied  generosity  in  debate,  such  patient  deference  when  over- 
ruled, such  magnanimous  equanimity  in  victory  as  were  habitual 
with  him,  were  never  surpassed  among  us.  Difi'ering  from  the 
rest  of  us  as  he  did  in  some  of  his  theological  tenets,  his  Christ- 
like temper  rendered  him  a  brother  beloved,  and  lends  a  heavenly 
lustre  to  his  memory. 

We,  his  survivors,  desire  to  place  on  record  our  affectionate 
tribute  to  his  worth,  and  to  offer  to  his  bereaved  kindred  a  tender 
expression  of  our  sympathy. 

Eevision  Eooms,  42  and  44  Bible  House,  New  York, 
Friday,  April  25,  1884. 

The  above  minute,  presented  by  Dr.  Thayer,  was  unanimously 
adopted  by  the  Committee. 


Part  Sixtj). 


KEPOET    OF    THE    COMMITTEE    ON    FINANCE    AND 
LIST   OF  DONORS  AND   SUBSCPJBEES. 


REPORT    OF   THE    COMMITTEE    ON    FINANCE 
AND  LIST  OF  DONORS  AND  SUBSCRIBERS. 


ORGANIZATION   OF   THE  FINANCE   COMMITTEE. 

The  Revision  of  the  English  Scriptures  for  public  use  was  undertaken  as  a 
labor  of  love,  without  any  prospect  of  reward  except  the  consciousness  of  doing  a 
good  work  for  the  benefit  of  English-speaking  Christendom.  But  no  enterprise 
of  such  magnitude,  embracing  so  many  workers  and  extending  through  nearly  four- 
teen years,  can  be  accomplished  without  considerable  expense  for  traveling,  print- 
ing, clerical  aid,  books,  room-rent  and  incidentals.  The  expenses  of  the  English 
Committee,  to  the  extent  of  $100,000  and  more,  were  assumed  at  an  early  stage  by 
the  University  Presses  of  Oxford  and  Cambridge  in  consideration  of  the  exclusive 
right  of  publication  within  her  Majesty's  dominions.  The  expenses  of  the  Ameri- 
can Committee  were  raised  in  our  usual  American  fashion  by  voluntary  contri 
butions.     No  aid  was  ever  asked  or  offered  from  any  foreign  quarter. 

For  four  years  the  contributions  were  solicited  by  the  President  and  a  few 
members  of  the  Committee,  Professor  Short  acting  as  Treasurer.  A  report  was 
made  from  time  to  time  to  contributors  in  parlor  meetings.  Some  kind  lay 
friends  volunteered  to  relieve  the  Committee  of  this  additional  burden  ;  and  in 
May,  1875,  a  Committee  of  Finance  in  co-operation  with  the  Revision  Committee 
was  organized. 

All  the  necessaiy  funds  for  the  Revision  work  have  been  raised,  first  by  solicit- 
ing donations,  and  afterward  in  the  more  convenient  way  of  offering  to  con- 
tributors of  §10  each  a  presentation  copy  of  the  Memorial  volume  of  the  New 
Testament.  The  responses  enabled  the  Committee  to  return  to  the  subscribers 
what  may  be  regai'ded  as  a  full  equivalent  for  their  contribution.  The  Memorial 
volumes  were  ordered  from  the  University  Presses  and  delivered  free  of  charge. 
They  are  gotten  up  in  the  very  best  style  of  printing  and  binding,  and  have  given 
universal  satisfaction.  The  Memorial  copies  will  increase  in  value  as  they  grow 
older  and  rarei*. 

The  success  of  this  plan  induced  the  Finance  Committee  to  offer  by  a  circular, 
dated  January  3,  1883,  a  Memorial  Copy  of  the  Revised  Old  Testament,  bound  in 
levant  morocco,  to  every  contributor  of  ,$20  toward  meeting  the  expenses  for  the 
completion  of  the  work.  In  the  autumn  of  1884  another  circular  was  issued,  in- 
forming contributors  that  it  had  been  determined  to  bind  the  Memorial  copies  of 
the  Old  Testament  in  four  volumes,  and  that  the  Committee  could  offer  the  four- 
volume  copy  at  $30,  or  the  two-volume  copy  at  $25,  and  that  those  who  had 
hitherto  contributed  $20,  in  consideration  of  which  they  were  entitled  to  a  two- 
volume  copy,  could  increase  the  contribution  to  $30  for  the  other  copy,  if  that 
was  preferred.  The  answer  to  the  circulars  was  prompt  and  liberal.  The  result 
is  thought  to  be  sufFicient  for  the  further  expenses,     if  there  should  be  a  balance 


160  DOCUMENTAKY    HISTORY  OF    THE 

left  in  the  treasury,  it  will  be  devoted  to  some  benevolent  object  connected  with 
Bible  Revision  or  Bible  distribution. 

The  gentlemen  who  first  constituted  the  Finance  Committee,  or  who  afterward 
became  connected  with  it,  are  : 

NathanBishop.LL.D.,  New  York.     (D.  1880.) 

Rev.  William  Adams,  D.D.,  New  York.     (D.  1880.) 

Rev.  Thos.  D.  Anderson,  D.D.,  New  York.     (D.  1881.) 

Mr.  A.  S.  Barnes,  New  York. 

Mr.  M.  C.  D.  Borden,  New  York. 

Mr.  Alexander  Brown,  Philadelphia. 

Mr.  Jas.  M.  Brovv^n,  New  York. 

Mr.  Wra.  A.  Cauldwell,  New  York. 

Mr.  Wm.  E.  Dodge,  New  York.     (D.  1883.) 

Rev.  n.  Dyer,  D.D.,  New  York. 

Mr.  John  Elliott,  New  York. 

Judge  E.  L.  Fancher,  LL.D.,  New  York. 

Prof.  Wm.  Gammell,  LL.D.,  Providence,  R.I. 

Mr.  John  C.  Havemeyer,  New  York. 

Mr.  Morris  K.  Jesup,  New  York. 

Mr.  Francis  T.  King,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Rt.  Rev.  Henry  C.  Potter,  D.D.,  New  York. 

Mr.  Howard  Potter,  New  York. 

Mr.  S.  B.  Schieffelin,  New  York. 

Mr.  Elliott  F.  Shepard,  New  York. 

Mr.  John  Sloane,  New  York. 

Mr.  Roswell  Smith,  New  York.     (Resigned  1881.) 

Rev.  R.  S.  Storrs.  D.D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Andrew  L.  Taylor,  New  York. 

Mr.  Chas.  Tracy,  New  York. 

Mr.  John  B.  Trevor,  New  York. 

Mr.  Alexander  Van  Rensselaer,  New  York.     (D.  1878.) 

Mr.  Samuel  D.  Warren,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mr.  Norman  White,  New  York.     (D.  1883.) 

Mr.  F.  S.  Winston,  New  York. 

The  oflacers  of  the  Finance  Committee  have  been: 

Nathan  Bishop,  LL.D.,  Chairman  (died,  1880). 
Judge  E.  L.  Fancher,  LL.D.,  Chairman  (since  1880). 
Andrew  L.  Taylor,  Treasurer. 

The  Treasurer  reports  the  total  amount  of  contributions  (including  remission  of 
duties  and  other  items)  from  the  beginning  of  the  work  in  1872  to  May  11,  1883, 
as  $44,761.00. 

The  expenses  during  the  same  period  for  traveling,  for  clerk  hire,  for  office 
expenses,  for  printing,  and  for  books  have  been  $35,225.60,  leaving  a  balance  in  the 
treasury  of  $9,535.91  on  May  11,  1883,  on  which  date  the  account  was  examined 
and  certified  to  by  the  Auditing  Committee. 

The  supplemental  statement  of  the  Treasurer  from  May  11,  1883,  to  January 
29,  1885,  shows  total  receipts  to  that  date  $47,501.46,  and  total  payments 
$38,469.67,  and  a  balance  in  the  treasury  of  $9,091.79. 


AMERICAN    BIBLE    EEVISION    COMMITTEE.  IGl 

The  balance  in  hand  will  be  used  for  the  further  expenses  of  the  Committee, 
for  the  publication  of  a  Documentary  History,  and  for  the  purchase  of  Memorial 
copies  of  the  Revised  Old  Testament. 

The  following  resolution,  passed  unanimously  by  the  Revision  Committee,  finds 
an  appropriate  place  at  this  point  : 

[From  the  Minutes,  Jan.  27,  1881,  p.  160.] 

Resolved,  That  the  American  Bible  Revision  Committee  recognize  and  acknowl- 
edge the  efficient  and  cordial  co-operation  which  has  been  given  to  their  work  by 
the  gratuitous  services  of  Mr.  Andrew  L.  Taylor,  and  hereby  record  their  thanks 
for  the  financial  furtherance  of  their  labors  due  to  his  ready  activity  as  their 
Treasurer, 

This  acknowledgment  was  unanimously  adopted, 
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LIST  OF  CONTRIBUTORS  TO  THE  FUND 

For  Defraying  the  Expenses 


American  Bible  Revision  Committee, 

•  FROM   THE   BEGINNING   OF   THE   WORK, 

October,   1872,  to  March   ist,    1881. 


Some  donors  in  the  follov/ing  list  have  contributed  more  than  once.     The 
amount  set  opposite  their  names  is  the  aggregate  of  their  several  contributions. 
Future  contributions  will  be  acknowledged  in  a  supplementary  list. 


Abbe,  Robt,  New  I'ork 

Abbot,  Geo.    Maurice,    Phila. . . 

A  Friend,  ^thro'  Dr.  Schaff) 

A  Friend 

A  Friend 

A  Friend 

AFriend(byEev.  Dr.  Pomeroy), 
Cleveland,  O 

A  Friend  (thro'  Dr.  Schaff) 

A  Friend  (thi.'  Dr.  Schaff) 

A  Friend  (thro'  Dr.  Schaff) 

A  Friend  (thro'  Dr.  Schaff) 

Agnew,  Alex.  McL.,  New  York.. 

Aiken,  Wm.  A.,  Norwich,  Conn. 

Aitken,  John,  New  York 

Alabaster,  J.,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

Albright,  Joseph  J.,  Scranton,Pa 

Alexander,  Jas.  W.,  New  York. . 

Alexander,  Wm.,  Toronto,  Can- 
ada  

Allen,  Arthur  H.,  (Eev.)  Islip,  N. 
Y 

Allen,  Miss  Candace, Providence, 
E.  I 

Allen,  R.  D.H.,  Peqiiabuck,Conn 

Allen,  Wm.  H.,  Phila 

Allinson,  Saml,  Yardsville,  N.  J. 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Anonymous 

Apx^leton,  J.  H.  (Rev.)  New 
York 

Armsby,  A.,  Millbury,  Mass.  .  .. 

Armstrong, H.  K.,PennYan,N.Y. 

Armstrong,  Miss  Sarah  H.,  New 
York 

Arnold,  Mrs.,  New  York .  . 

Arnold,  D.  H.,  New  York 

Atkins,  D.  F.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. . 

Atwood,  N.  L.,  New  York 

Auchincloss,  Hugh,  New  Y'ork. . 
Auchincloss,  J.  W.,  New  York.. 
Austen,  Edward,  Orange,  N.  J. 
Aycrigg,  Benjamin,  Passaic,  N.J. 


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Backus,  John  C,  (Eev.  )Baltimore 

Bacon,  S.  J.,  New  York 

Bailey,  Latimer,  New  York 

Baird,  John,  New  York 

Baker,  H.  E.,  Detroit,  Mich 

Baker,  H.  K.,  Hollowell,  Maine. 
Baker,  Miss  Julia,  New  York . .  . 

Baker,  John  R.,  Phila 

Balcfir,  Miss  P.  A.,  New  York. . 

Baldwin,  Mrs.,  New  York 

Baldwin,    C.     H.,   Columbia,   S. 

C 

Bald-nan,  J.  G.,  New  York 

Baldwin,  M.  G.,  New  York 

Baldwin,  Simeon  E.,  New  Haven 

Conn 

Baldwin,  W.  A.,  Newark,  N.  J.. 
Ball,  John,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich 
Banks,  James  L.,  New  Yorlc.  . . . 
Barbour,   Robt.,   Lake   George, 

N.  Y 

Barbour,  Wm.,  New  York 

Barker,  Mrs.  E.  '  .,  New  York.. 
Barlow,  George,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Barlow,  J.  M.,  New  York 

Barnard,  F.   A.  P.,  (Rev.)  New 

York 

Barnes,  A.  S.,  New  York 

Barnes,  Theo.  M.,  New  York. . . 
Bartlett,  Edward  0.,    Kingston, 

R.  I 

Bartlett,  Mrs.  M.,  Boston 

Barton,  Mrs.  Wm.,  New  York. .  . 
Bascom,    John,    Madison,   Wis- 
consin  

Bash,  H.  M.,  Baltimore 

Bates,Dan'l  M.,  (Rev.)  Shanghai, 

China 

Bates,  James  L.,  Columbus,  0. . 

Bayard,  C.  M.,  Phila 

Beadleston,  W.  H.,  New  York. . 
Beall,  Rob't,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Beecher,  Willis  J., (Rev. )Auburn. 

N.  Y 

Beekman,  Gerard,  New  York. . . 


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164 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


Belknap,  A.  13.,  New  York 10  00 

Belknap.  M.  L.,  Louisville,  Ky.  30  00 
Belknap,    Robert    Lenox,    New 

York 10  00 

Benedict,    Charles,    Waterbury, 

Conn 125  00 

Benedict,  E.  C,  New  York 30  00 

Benner,  F.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Bennett,  Jas.  A.,  New  York 5  00 

Benton,  A.  L.,  (Ecv.)  Fredonia, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Berard,  Miss  A.  Blanche,  "West 

Point,  NY 10  00 

Berrian,  Edward  P.,  New  York.  10  00 
Berry  J.  llomcyn.   (Eev.)  Mont- 

clair,  N.  J 10  00 

Battle,  Jr.,  Edward,  Phila 10  00 

Beyer,  F.,  Carleton  Place,  Ont. .  10  00 

Biddle,  Miss  Anne  E.,  Phila. ...  10  00 

Biddle,  Edward  C,  Phila 20  00 

Biddle,  John,  Phila 10  00 

Biddle,  Mrs.  T.  A.,  Phila 10  00 

Bill,   A.  W.,  (Rev.)  Menominee, 

Mich 5  00 

Birdseye,  Clarence  F.,New  York  10  00 

Bishop,  Nathan,  New  York 800  00 

Bishop,  Mrs.  Nathan,  New  York  100  00 

Bissell,  A.  P.,   (Rev.)  Delhi,  O.  10  00 

Bitting,  G.  C,  (Rev.)  Baltimore  10  00 
Bittinqer,  Rev.  J.  B.,  Sewickley, 

Pa 10  00 

Blackall,  C.  R.,  New  York 5  00 

Blaikie,  John  L.,  Toronto,  Can- 
ada   10  00 

Blair,  Wm.,  Chicago,  III 25  00 

Blake,    Chas.    M.,     (Rev.)    San 

Francisco,  Cal 10  00 

Blakiston,  P.,  Phila 50  00 

Blatchford,  E.  W.,  Chicago,  111.  20  00 

Bogert,  Henry  A.,  New  York.  . .  10  00 

Bohlen,  John,  Phila 100  00 

Bohlen,  Mrs.  P.  M.,  Phila 25  00 

Bonner,  Robert,  New  York 100  00 

Boone,  Thos.,  (Rev.)  Savannah, 

Ga 10  GO 

Boorman,  Miss  A.,  New  York. . .  10  00 

Boorman,  Miss  Laura,  New  York.  10  00 

Boorman,  Miss  Mary,  New  York  10  00 
Borden,   Mrs.   J.  G.,   Brewster, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Boyce,  Jas.  P., (Rev.)  Louisville, 

Ky 10  00 

Bradford,  J.  Russell,  Boston....  10  00 
Branch,  James  O.,  (Rev.)  Savan- 
nah, Ga 10  00 

Bradford,  Martin  L.,  Boston. . .  10  00 

Branch,  Thos.  P.,  Augusta,  Ga.  20  GO 

Brand,  James,  New  York 20  00 

Brantley.W.T., (Rev.)  Baltimore  10  00 

Brauns,  F.  L.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Brauns,  F.  W..  (Rev.)  Baltimore  10  00 

Bremer,  John  L.,  Boston 100  00 

Brewer,  H.  O.,  Kansas,  City,  Mo.  10  OU 

Briggs,  James  H.,  New  York. . .  10  00 
Briggs,  Mrs.  W.  T.,East  Douglass 


Mass 10  00 

Bright,  Edwd.,  (Rev.)  New  York  10  00 

Brimmer,  Martin,  Boston  ....  50  00 

Brinckerhoff,  E.  A.,  New  York..  150  00 
Brocksmit.  J.  C,  Cedar  Rai^ids, 

Iowa 10  00 

Brodie,  Wm.  A.,  Geneseo,  N.  Y.  10  00 

Brooks,  Phillips,  (Rev.)  Boston.  10  00 

Brouwer,  Geo.  H,  New  York...  10  00 

Brown,  Alex.,  Baltimore 10  GO 

Brown,  Alex.,  Phila '  200  00 

Brown,  Geo.  S.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Brown,  Geo.  Wm.,  Baltimore...  10  00 

Brown,  I.  Wistar,  Phila 10  00 

Brown,  James,  New  York 300  00 

Brown,  J.  M.,  New  York 10  00 

Brown,  James  M.,  New  York. .  .  200  00 

Brown,  John  Crosby,  New  York  20  00 

Brown,  John  J.,  Paterson,  N.  J.  10  00 

Brown,  Robt.,  Jr.,  Cincinnati,  O.  50  00 

Brown,  Stewart,  New  York 250  00 

Browne,  Henry  H., Brooklyn, NY  10  00 

Brunot,  Felix,  Pittsburgh,  Pa...  50  00 

Bruton,  J.  W.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Buell,  James,  New  York 50  00 

Bulkley,    Eliza    A.,    Southport, 

Conn 10  00 

Bull,  Henry  K.,  New  York 10  00 

Bull,  Wm.  L.,  Phila 10  00 

Bullock,  F.  S.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Bumstead,  H.  Willis,  Boston. . .  20  00 

Burkhalter,  Stephen,  New  York .  20  00 

Burt,  Miss  H.,  New  York 10  00 

Bush,  L.,  P.   Wilmington,  Del..  10  00 

Bussing,  John  S.,  New  York. . .  5  00 

Butler,  Charles,  New  York 20  00 

Butler,  B.  F.,  New  York 10  00 

Campbell,  Miss  Isabel,  New  York  10  00 

Campbell,  H.  P.,  New  York. ...  5  00 

Campbell,  Mrs.  R.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Candy,  Wm.  S.,  Milwaukee,  Wis.  5  00 
Canfield,    Mary  C,    Princeton, 

N.  J 300  00 

Care3%  Jr.,  John,  New  York 50  00 

Carey,  Saml.  E.,  Keokuk,  Iowa.  5  00 
Carpenter,  George    M.,    Provi- 
dence, R.  1 10  00 

Carpenter.  R.  B.,  Portchester. .  10  00 

Carson,  Mrs.  M.  G.,  New  York.  5  00 

Carter,  Aaron,  New  York 5  00 

Cary,  John  G.,Roxbury  Station, 

Mass 10  00 

Catlin,  F.  W.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. .  10  00 
Caughey,   Jolin  A.,  Pittsburgh, 

Pa 10  00 

"  Cash,"  New  York 5  00 

"Cash,"  New  York  5  00 

"  Cash,"  Now  York 2  00 

" Cash,"  Hampton,  Va 10  00 

Cauldwcll,  Wm.  A.,  New  York.  200  00 
Chaffee,  Mrs.  Eugene,  W.,  Moo- 

dus.  Ct 10  00 

Chamberlain,  L.  T.,  (Eev.)  Nor- 
wich, Conn 10  00 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


165 


Chambers,  Kobt.  B.,  Providence, 

R.  1 10  00 

Chapin,  E.  P.,  Springfield,  Mass  10  00 
Chapin,  John  E.  (Eev.)  Neenah, 

Wis 5  00 

Chapin,  J.  H.  (Rev.)  Meriden, 

Conn 10  00 

Chapin,  W.  C,  Providence.  R.  I.  10  00 
Chairman,  Chandler  P.,  Madison, 

Wis 5  00 

Charlier,  Elie,  New  York 150  00 

Char];er,  Elisee,  New  York 25  00 

Charlton,  John,  Lynedoch,  On- 
tario, Canada 10  00 

Chester,    H.    W.,   Port  Huron, 

Mich 10  00 

Cheston,  Gallway,  Baltimore...  10  00 

Cheston,  James,  Baltimore 10  00 

Childs,  Mrs.  Harvey,  Pittsburgh, 

Pa 10  00 

Chittenden,     Mrs.      Mary    H., 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y 10  00 

Christian  Union,  New  York 10  00 

Clapp,  A.  H.,  (Rev.)  New  York..  50  00 

Clark,  D.,  (Rev,-)  Boston 10  00 

Clark,  Jas.  S.,  New  York 10  00 

Clark,  Geo.  C  ,  Rushville,  Ind..  10  00 
Clark,  Wm.  Mortimei-,  Toronto, 

Can 20  00 

Clark,  R.  S.,  New  York 75  00 

Clark,  W.  N.,  New  York 10  00 

Clarke,  J.  C,  St.  Clair,  Mich. . .  10  00 

Clarke,  T.  A.,  New  York 5  00 

Clayton,  John,  Phila 45  00 

Clement,  J.  L.,  Neenah,  Wis  ...  5  00 

Cloyd,  Jas.  C,  New  York 10  00 

Coale,  Katberine  B,,  Baltimore.  10  00 

Coats,  James,  Providence,  R.  I..  100  00 
Cobb,  Miss  Annie  C,  Freehold, 

N.J 10  00 

Cochran,  H.  C,  Phila 10  00 

Coffin,    Charles  F.,    Richmond, 

Ind 10  00 

Coffin,  Lemuel,    Phila 50  00 

Coleman,  E.  W.,  New  York 10  00 

Coleman,  Mrs.  T.  I.,  New  York.  5  00 

Coles,  Miss  Mary,  Phila 10  00 

Colgate,  Bowles,  New  York 25  00 

Collection     at    Lake    Mohonk 

House,     through    Dr.     N. 

Bishop 9  00 

Collins,  Mrs.  Ellen,  New  York..  10  00 

Collins,  Sheldon,  New  York ....  25  00 

Colton,  C.  F.  Mrs,,  New  York. . .  5  00 
Condit,  Blackford,  Terrc  Haute, 

Ind 10  00 

Condit,    Frederic,    Providence, 

R.  1 10  00 

Condit,   Isaac  L.,     Parsippany, 

N.  J 10  00 

Conger,  Clarence  R.,  New  York.  10  00 

Conklin,  N.  W.,  (Rev. )  New  York  20  00 
Conkling,  D.  B.,  (Rev.)  Savan- 

nan,  Ga 10  00 

Contoit,  Chas.  H.,  New  York. . .  10  00 


Cook,  Mrs.  Ann   Rebekah,  New 

York 80  00 

Cook,  Paul,  Troy,  N.  Y 10  00 

Cooke  &  Co.,  Jay,  New  York 100  00 

Coolidge,  A.  L.",  Boston 25  00 

Cope,  M.  C,  Phila 25  00 

Corliss,     Geo.    H.,    Providence, 

R.  I 100  00 

Craig,  Hector,  New  York 50  00 

Craig,  Thos.,  Montreal,  Canada.  10  00 

Crandon  Frank  P.,  Chicago,  111.  10  00 

Crane,  Mrs.  Edward,  New  York,  10  00 
Crane,  Mrs.    Mary  E.,    Dalton, 

Mass 10  00 

Crawford,    A.,    San    Francisco, 

Cal 5  00 

Cresson,  Chas.  C,  Phila 10  00 

Cresson,  Wm.  P.,  Phila 25  00 

Crosby,  Mrs.  E.  M.,  New  York. .  5  00 
Cruger,  S.  V.  R.,  New  York. ...  10  00 
Curtis,   Wm.     C,    (Rev.)   Rich- 
mond, Maine 10  00 

Curtiss,  Samuel  Ives,  (Rev.)  Chi- 
cago, 111 10  00 

Cushing,  G.  W.  B.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Daggett,  A.  S.,  Phila 10  00 

Dalrymple,  E.   A.  (Rev.)  Balti- 
more, Md 10  00 

Darrow,  Wm.,  New  York 20  00 

Davenport,      S.      Aug.,      (Rev.) 

Honey  Grove,  Pa 10  00 

Davis,  O.  'F.,  Omaha,  Neb 5  00 

Davis,  Theo.  R.,  New  York 10  00 

Dawson,  Joseph  H.,  Norfolk,  Va  10  00 

Day,  Frank  A.,  Boston 10  00 

Day,  Henry,  New  York 160  00 

Deane,  John  H.,  New  York 100  00 

Decker,  David,  Elmira,  N.  Y. . ..  10  00 

Deems,  J.  Harry,  Baltimore. ...  10  00 

DeForest,  II.  G.,  New  York 150  00 

Delano,  Miss  E.  D.,  Hardwick, 

Vt 10  00 

Denslow,  Chas.  W.,  Mendocino, 

Cal 10  00 

Dickinson,  MissE.  B.,  New  Bed- 
ford, Mass 10  00 

Dickson,  Mrs.  S.  H.,  Phila 20  00 

Dillingham,  Mrs.,  New  York. .  .  5  00 

Doan,^V.  H„  Cleveland,  0 10  00 

Dodge,  Wm.  E.,  New  York 275  CO 

Dodge,  Jr.,  Wm,  E.,  New  York.  200  00 
Douglas,  Mrs.  Hugh,  Nashville, 

Tenn 10  00 

Dowd,  Wm.,  New  York 10  00 

Downer,  Mrs.  E.,  New  York 30  00 

Drake,  C.  D„  Washington,  D.  C.  10  00 

Drake,  James  H.,  New  York. ...  10  00 

Draper,  W.  F.,  Andovcr,  Mass. .  10  00 

DuBois,  Abram,  New  York 20  00 

DuBois,  M.  B.,  New  York 10  00 

Dulles,  John  Welsh,  Phila 10  00 

Dunham,  Austin,  Hartford,  Ct.  100  00 

Dunham,  G.  H.,  New  York 25  00 

Dunlop,  John,  Richmond,  Va. .  10  00 


166 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


Dunn,  James,  Petersburg,  Va. .  10  00 
Dusenberry,    Charles  E.,  Troy, 

N.  Y :  .  o  00 

Dwiglit,  John,  New  York 50  00 

Easter,  Hamilton,  Baltimore.  . .  10  00 

Eaton,  D.  G.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. .  10  00 

Eaton,  J.  R.,  Liberty,  Mo 10  00 

Eaton.  T.  T.,  (Eev.)  Petersburg, 

Va 10  00 

Ecclcston,  J.  H.,  (Rev.)  Newark, 

N.  J 20  00 

Eddy  Zachary,    (Eev.;  Detroit, 

Mich 10  00 

Edwardes,  Mrs.  Emily  H.,   New 

York 10  00 

Edwards,  Sam'l,  (Eev.)   Milford 

Pa 10  00 

Edwards,  Walter,  New  York 240  00 

Eells,    M.,    (Eev.)    Skokomish, 

"Wash.  Terr 10  00 

Eliot,  Boyd,  New  York 10  00 

Elliot,  Wm.,   Iroquois,  Ontario.  10  00 

Elliott,  John,  New  York 150  00 

Elwood,A.  E.,Eichfield  Springs, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Ely,  Geo.  H.,  Cleveland,  0 5  00 

Ely,  Mrs.  Horace  S.,  New  York.  10  00 

Ely,  Nathan  C,  New  York 10  00 

Ely,  Eich'd  S.,  New  York 30  00 

Ely,  Z.  Styles,  New  York 45  00 

Emerson,  George  B.,  Boston. . .  50  00 
Emerson,  Mrs.  M.  E.,  Concord, 

N.  H 10  00 

Emott,  James,  New  York 10  00 

Ensign,  F.  E.,  Boise  City,  Idaho 

Terr 10  00 

Errett,  If-aac,  Cincinnati,  0 10  00 

Estes,  Charles,  Augusta,  Ga 10  00 

Everson,  D.  S..  New  York 30  00 

Fairbanks,  Franklin,  St.  Jolins- 

burg,  Vt 10  00 

Falconer,  Mary  S.,  Sharon,  Wis.  10  00 

Paris,  Wm.  W.,  Clinton,  HI 10  00 

Farnam,  Henry,  New  Haven,  Ct.  200  00 
Farnham,  Wm.  H.,    Milwaukee, 

Wis 10  00 

Famsworth,  Ezra,  Boston 50  00 

Farnum,     Mrs.     Elizabeth    H., 

Phila 45  00 

Parr,  J.  M.,  New  York CO  00 

Fay.  Jos.  S.,  Boston 25  00 

Fellows,  Eichard  S.,  New  Haven, 

Ct 50  00 

Ferguson.  Bryant,  Phila 5  00 

Ferris,  Frank  A.,  New  York 10  00 

Field,  Miss  Alice  D.,  New  York.  10  00 

Field,  Cyrus  W.,  New  York 300  00 

Field,  David  Dudley,  New  York.  10  00 

Field,  Henry  M.  (Eev.)  "  10  00 
Field,  Wm.'T.,  Easley   Station, 

S.  C 11  00 

Fisher,  Eichard  D.,  Baltimore..  10  00 

Fisher,  Wm.  A.,  Baltimore 10  00 


Fisher,  Wm.   P.,  (Eev.)  Bruns- 
wick,  Me 10  00 

Fitch,  Wm.,  New  Haven,  Ct. ...  200  00 
Fithian,  Miss  J.   C,  Woodburj', 

N.  J 10  00 

Flint,  Waldo,  Boston 10  00 

Forrester,  H.  M.,  New  York 5  00 

Forsvth,  John,  (Eev.  )West  Point, 

isr.  Y 10  00 

Foster,  Lafayette  S.,    Norwich, 

Conn 50  GO 

Fox,  Mrs.  Jane   Bleecker,    New 

York 100  00 

Francis,  Judson  T.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Francis  &  Loutrel,  New  Y'ork. . .  31  00 
Franklin,    S.,     San    Francisco, 

Cal 10  00 

Eraser,  Jas.,  New  York 10  00 

Fraser,  E.  E.,  Georgetown,  S.  C.  10  00 
Eraser,  Thos.,  (Eev.)  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 5  00 

Frazier,  Jr.,  W.  W.,  Phila 100  00 

Freeland,  Theo.  H„  New  York. .  10  00 
Frelinghuysen,   F.   T.,   Newark 

N.J 25  00 

French,  Edward  W.,  (Eev.)  Jer- 
sey City  Heights,  N.  J 10  00 

Frick,'W.  F.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Fnssell,  A.  S.,  New  Yor.k 10  00 

Frost,  E.  S.,   Boston 25  00 

Frothingham,  Chas.,  NewY^'ork.  5  00 

Fruer,  E.  P.,  Toronto,  Ont 10  00 

Fuller,  James  M.,  New  York. .  .  30  00 

Fussell,  M.  T.,  New  York 10  00 

Gage,  Alva,  Charleston,  S.  C 10  00 

Gallatin,  A.  E.,  New  York 10  00 

Gammell,     Wm.,      Providence, 

E.  1 100  00 

Garrett,  T.   H.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Gasten,  Eobt.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y..  10  00 

Gates,  C.  P.,  Chicago,  111 10  00 

Gay  lord,  Wm.  L.,  (Eev.)  Chico- 

pee,  Mass 10  00 

Gibson,    Churchill,     J.,     (Eev.) 

Petersburg,  Va 10  00 

Gibson,  Mrs.  P.  H.,  Eichmond, 

Va 10  00 

Oilman,  John  S.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Oilman,  Theodore,  New  York..  50  00 

Oilman,  Jr.,  W.  S.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Glenn,  John,  Baltimore 10  00 

Goddard,  E.  W.,  Concord,  N.  H  '20  00 
Goddard,  Thos.  P.  J.,  Provi- 
dence, E.  1 100  00 

Goucher,  Jno.  F.,  Pikesville,  Md  10  00 
Gourdin,  Eobt.  N.,  Charleston, 

S.  C  20  00 

Grant,    Miss  E.    M.,   Phila 5  00 

Graves,     Geo.    L.,    Milwaukee, 

Wis 5  00 

Gray,  Geo.  C,  (Rev,)  Cambridge, 

Mass 10  00 

Grayton,    Miss    JMary    E.,  New 

'York 10  00 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


167 


Green,  Mrs.  Ashbel,  New  York.  10  00 

Green,  Caleb  S.,  Trenton,  N.  J.  20  00 

Green,  John  C,  New  York 100  00 

Greene,  E.  K.,  Montreal,  Canada,  10  00 

Greene,  Jacob  L.,  Hartford,  Ct.  .  10  00 

Greene,  Stephen,  Phila 10  00 

Gregory.   H.    D.,   (Rev.)   Blairs- 

town,  N.  J 10  00 

Greshom,  John  J.,  Macon,  Ga. .  .  10  00 
Grier,  John  D.,   Chambersbnrg, 

Pa 10  00 

Griffis,  Wm.  E.,  (Eev.)  Schenec- 
tady, N.  Y 10  00 

Grosvenor,    Wm.,     Providence, 

E.  1 50  00 

Grover,  W.  O.,  Boston 200  00 

Groynne,  Cettie  M.,  New  York.  10  00 
Gulick,  U.  D.,  (Eev.)  Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Hagerman,    J.    J.,    Milwaiikee, 

Wis 10  00 

Hale,    Edward  E.,    (Eev.)  Eox- 

bury.  Mass 10  00 

Hall,    Mrs.    Clara  B.,  Blue  Eap- 

ids,  Kansas 10  00 

Hall,  Edwin  0.,  Honolulu,  Sand- 
wich Islands 10  00 

HallockLeavittH.  (Eev.)  Win- 

sted,  Ct 10  00 

Halsey,   Sam'l  P.,  Brooklyn,  N. 

Y 10  00 

Halstead.  P.  S.,  New  York 30  00 

Halsted,  J.  M.,  New  York 10  00 

Halsted.  Eobt.,   New  York 15  00 

Ham,  James  M.,  Brooklyn,  N.Y.  20  00 
Hamilton,  Marmaduke,    Savan- 
nah, Ga 10  00 

Hammersly,      John     W.,     New 

York 50  00 

Hammond,     Mrs.     George    W., 

Boston 25  00 

Handy,  T.  P.,  Cleveland,  O. . . .  50  00 

Hankinson,  John  H.,  New  York  10  00 
Happer,    A.    P.,  (Eev.)  Canton, 

China 10  00 

Harbison,  S.  P.,  Pittsbiirgh,  Pa.  10  00 

Hardwick,  B.  C,  Eoxbury,  Mass.  10  00 

Hardy,  Alpheu.s,   Boston 50  00 

Harley,   Mrs.   M.  G.,  Barnwell, 

S.  C 10  00 

Harmon,  E.,  (Eev.)  Winchester, 

N.  JI 10  00 

Harper  &  Bros.,  New  York 10  00 

Harrington   AVm.,  Columbus,  0.  10  00 

Harris,  J.  Campbell,  Phila 50  00 

Harris,  W.  Hall,  Baltimore 10  00 

Harris,    Young   L.    G.,  Athens, 

Ga 10  00 

Harrison,  Geo.  S.,  Phila 100  00 

Harrison,  John,  Troy,  N.  Y 10  00 

Hart,  W.  D.,  (Eev.)  Little  Com- 

pton,  R.  1 10  00 

Hartshorne,     Henry,     German- 
town, Phila 10  00 


Hartzell,  Joseph  C,  (Eev.)  New 

Orleans,  La  10  00 

Harvey,  Henry  D.,  Baltimore.. .  10  GO 
Hastings,  TIios.  S.,  (Eev.)  New 

York 20  00 

Hatch,  H.  E.,  Cleveland,  O 20  00 

Havemeycr,  J.  C,  New  York.  .  .  90  00 
Haven,  Henry  P.,  New  London, 

Ct 100  00 

Hawkes,  Winfield  Scott,    (Eev.) 

So.  Hadley  Falls,  Mass 10  00 

Hawley  Martin,  Baltimore,  Md.  10  00 

Haynes,  D.  F.,  Baltimore, 10  00 

Plays,  Geo.  P.,  (Rev,)  AVashing- 

ton.  Pa 10  00 

Hays,  Jacob,  New  York 25  00 

Hays,  W.  H.,  New  York 15  00 

Hazard,    Rowland,    Providence, 

R.  1 100  00 

Hedges,  Miss  C.  A.,  New  York. .  20  00 

Heermance,  E.  L.  (Rev) 100  00 

Helm,  Thos.,  Jackson,  Miss 10  00 

Hemenway,    C.   C,    (Rev.)   Au- 

burn,'N.  Y 10  00 

Henderson,  C.  M.,  Chicago 10  00 

Henry,  John  F.,  Louisville,  Ky.  10  00 

Henry,  Maria  C,  New  York 10  00 

Henry.  Wm.  Wirt,  Richmond, Va  10  00 

Hewes,  David,  Oakland,  Cal 10  00 

Higbee,  E.  C,  Cleveland,  O   . . .  5  00 

Hightower,A.  H.,  Mountville,Ga  10  00 

Hildeburn,  Wm.  L.,  Phila 5  00 

Hildreth,     Edward,      Colorado 

Springs,  Col :  10  00 

Hilton,  Wm.,  Boston 100  00 

Hinckley,    S.    T.,    Elgin,   111...  10  00 

Hinman,  Wm.  K.,  New  York. .  .  20  00 

Hitchcock,  P.  M.,  Cleveland,  0.  100  00 
Hitchcock,    Roswell   D.,    (Rev.) 

New  York 20  00 

Hitchcock,      Jr.,     Roswell     D., 

Washington 10  00 

Hoe,  Robt.,  New  York , . .  .  35  00 

Hoe.  Jr.,  Mrs.  Richard  M.,  New 

York 10  00 

Hoffman,  F.  E.,  Madisonville,  0.  10  00 
Holden,      Mrs.      Horace,     New 

York 15  00 

Holland,  J.  G.,  New  York 10  00 

Hollister,  Nelson,  Hartford,  Ct.  10  00 

Holman,  A.  J.,  Phila 100  00 

Holton,  E.  D.,  Milwaukee,  Wis.  5  00 
Hooker,    Henry    T.,    Syracuse. 

N.  Y 10  00 

Hooper,  Alcaeus,  Baltimore  ...  10  00 

Hope,  Geo.  T.,  New  York 10  00 

Hoppin,  Jr.,  W.  W.,  New  York.  5  00 

Horver,  J.  G.,  Cleveland,  0.  . .  5  00 
Houghton,    H.    0.,    Cambridge, 

Mass 20  00 

Houghton.HerbertR., New  York.  10  00 

How,  B.  W.,  New  York 10  00 

Howe,  S.  G.,  Oswego,  N.  Y 10  00 

Hoyt,  Oliver,  New  York 50  00 

Huljbard,    Eli   A.,    Springfield, 


li 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND 


Mass 10  00 

Huffmaster,  Jas.   T.,  Galveston, 

Texas 10  00 

Hull,  E.  C.  (Kev.)  Ellsworth,  Ct.  10  00 

Hunncwell,  H.  11.,  Boston 20  00 

Hunter,    D.   M.,  Broadalbin,  N. 

Y 30  00 

Huntington,  Daniel,  New  York.  55  00 
Huntington,  W.  R.  (Kev.)  Wor- 
cester, Mass 20  00 

Hurd,  Orlando,  Watkins,  N.  Y..  10  00 

Hurlburt,  Henry  A.,  New  York.  45  00 
Hutchinson,    B.    E.,    Madison, 

Wis 5  00 

Hutchinson,  J.  B.,  New  York. ..  20  00 

Hutchinson,  Wm.,Montclair,N.J  5  00 

Hutchinson,  W.  J.,  New  York.  .  10  00 

Hyde,  Henry  B.,  New  York. ...  10  00 

Hyde,  Wm.,  Ware,  Mass 25  00 

Ireland,  Mrs.  Hannah,  New  York  450  00 

Irvin,  Eichard,  New  York 20  00 

Irwin,  David,  New  York 15  00 

Isaacs,  Wm.  M.,  New  York 10  00 

Ives,  Mrs.  C.  L.,  Burlington,  N. 

J 10  00 

Ivison,  H.,  New  York 10  00 

Jackson,  F.  A.,  Phila 10  00 

Jackson,  Bi chard  C,  New  York.  30  00 

Jackson,  S.  M.  (Ilev.)New  York.  15  00 

Jackson,  W.  H.,  New  York 35  00 

Jacobs,  Mrs.  E.  B.,  Phila 5  00 

JaflCray,  llobert.  New  York 40  00 

Jaggar,  Thos.  A.,  (Bishop)  Cin- 
cinnati   10  00 

James,  D.  Willis,  New  York 20  00 

James,  James  O.,  Phila 50  00 

Jamison,  Chas.  A.,  Peoria,  111.. .  10  00 

Jardine,  Mrs.  M.  New  York 10  00 

Jarman,  Z.  H.,  New  York 5  00 

Jay,  John,  New  York 30  00 

Jenckes,    Miss  Annie  A.,  Stam- 
ford, Ct 5  00 

Jenks,  Henry  F.,  (Rev.)  Boston  10  00 

Jeremiah,  Thos.  F.,  New  York..  5  00 
Jeremiah,    Mrs.   Thos.  F.,  New 

York 5  00 

ervis,  John  B.,  Ptome,  N.  Y.  . ..  10  00 
essamine  County  Bible  Society, 

Ky 10  00 

Jesup,  Morris  K.,  New  York 225  00 

Jewell,  Chas.  A.,  Hartford,  Ct.  .  10  00 

Johnson    Charlotte  A.,  Boston.  10  00 
Johnson,  E.   II.,  Providence,  R. 

1 10  00 

Johnson,  Jas.  R.,  Coshocton,  O.  10  00 

Johnson,  N.  B.,  Louisville,  Ky  10  00 

Johnson,  Reverdy,  Baltimore..  10  00 

Johnson,  Saml.,  Boston 50  00 

Johnson,    T.    H.,   Northumber- 
land, Pa 10  00 

Johnston,     John,      Milwaukee, 

Wis 5  00 

Johnston,     Jolin    Taylor     New 


York 250  00 

Jones,  Jacob  P.,  Phila 250  00 

Jones,  Lewis,  New  York 10  00 

Jones,  Mrs.  Lewis,  New  York. ..  5  00 
Jones,    Jr.,    P.    C.,    Honolulu, 

Sandwich  Islands 10  00 

Jones,  Tignal  W.,  Tyler,  Texas.  10  GO 
Journeaj^     Mrs.     James,     New 

York 10  00 

Judson,  Mrs.   D,    P.,  Stratford, 

Conn 10  00 

Junkin,  Geo.,  Phila 10  00 

Keller,  P.  A.,  Phila 10  00 

Keller,  W.  L.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Kellogg,  Alfred H,  (Rev.) Phila.  10  00 

Kellogg,  Chas.   P.,  Chicago 10  00 

Kendall,    John    F.,    (Rev.)    La 

Porte,  Ind 10  00 

Kennedv,   Mrs.  Emma  B.,  New 

York 10  00 

Kenned}',  Francis  W.,  Phila. ...  10  00 

Kennedy,  Geo.  H.,  New  York..  10  00 

Kennedy,  John  S.,  New  York. ..  10  00 

Kent,  Elmore  A.,  New  York 30  00 

Kerr,  Mrs.  H.  A.,  New  York  ...  50  00 
Ketcham,  Tredwell,  New  Haven, 

Ct 25  GO 

Ketchum,  Edgar,  New  York....  20  00 

Keyes,  Geo.    W,  Olivet,  Mich..  10  00 

Kidder,  H.  P.,  Boston 100  00 

Kilborne,  A.  W.,  Orange,  N.  J..  10  00 
Kilborne,    Chas.    T.,    Lockport, 

NY 10  00 

Kimball,  E.  IL,  New  York 10  00 

Kimber,  John  Shober,  Phila  ...  10  00 

King,  Francis  T.,  Baltimore 10  00 

King,  Wm.  J.,  Providence,  R.  L  20  00 
Kingsbury,     Oliver    A.,    (Rev.) 

New  York 10  00 

Kingsland,  A.  C,  New  York 40  00 

Kip,  Wm.  W.,  New  York 20  00 

Kip,  Leonard  W.,  (Rev.)  Amoy, 

China 10  00 

Kittredge,  J.  E.  (Rev.)  Geneseo, 

NY 10  00 

Kline,  Lewis  E.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.  10  00 
Knapp,    Sanford  K.,  Peekskill, 

NY 10  on 

Knevals,   C.  B.,  New  York 10  00 

Lahon,  Chas.  IL,  San  Francisco,  10  00 

Lambert,  John,  Phila 100  00 

Landram,  W.  J.,  Lancaster,  Ky.  10  00 
Landrum,    Sylvanus,  (Rev.)  Sa- 
vannah, Ga  10  00 

Lane,  Geo.  W.,  New  York 10  00 

Lane,  S.  M.,  Southbridge,  Mass.  10  00 
Langdon,    Woodbury   G.,    New 

York 25  00 

Langwoi-thy,  I.  P.,   (Rev.)  Bos- 
ton   10  00 

Lankton,  Thos.,  Hartford,  Ct. ..  10  00 
Lansing,    Charles    B.,    Albany, 

N.  Y 100  00 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


169 


Lansing,  Gtistav  G.,  New  York.  10  00 
Lawrence,  Amos  A.,  Brookline, 

Mass 200  00 

Lawrence,  Kiclid.,  New  York. .  .  5  00 
Lawrence,    Wm.   K.,  Brookline, 

Mass 150  00 

Lawton,  Mrs.  A.  E,.,  Savannah, 

Ga 10  00 

Learned,  L.  C,  New  Loudon,  Ct  10  00 

Lee,  Alfred,  St.  Louis,  Mo 10  00 

Lee,    Henry  F.,  (Rev.)  Holmes- 

bi-irg,  Phila 10  00 

Lee,  Henry  S.,  Springfield, Mass  10  00 

Lee,  Wm.  F.,  New  York 10  00 

Leeds,  George,  (Rev. )  Baltimore  10  00 

Leiter,  Levi  Z.,  Chicago 200  00 

Lenox,  James,  New  York (J25  OJ 

Letchworth,  J.,  Auburn,  N.  Y. .  40  00 

Lewis,  Charlton  T.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Lewis,  Henry  F.,  Chicago,  111.    .  10  00 

Lewis,  Frank  S.,  Phila 10  00 

Lewis,  John  T..  Phila 300  00 

Lewis,  Saml.  G.,  Phila 10  00 

Libbey,  Wm.,  New  York 100  00 

Libbey,  Mrs.  Wm.  New  York. ..  600  00 
Libby,   Mrs.    M.   L.,   Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Lindsay,  Robt.  M.,  Phila 20  00 

Linsly,  Jared,  New  York   15  00 

Litchfield,  Edwin  C,  Bingham- 

ton,N.Y 100  00 

Littell,  H.  B.,  Montclair,  N.  J  .  5  00 
Little,    Mrs.    S.   C,    Janesville, 

Wis    10  00 

Livingston,  Miss  Frances,  New 

York 10  00 

Lockwood,   A.   D.,    Providence, 

R.  1 60  00 

Lockwood,    Radcliffe  B.,  Bing- 

hamton,  N.  Y 10  00 

Long,  W.  E.,   (Rev.)  Wheeling, 

W.  Va 10  00 

Longstreth,  Henry,  Phila 20  00 

Longstreth,  Thos.  K.,  Phila. ...  10  00 

Lord,  Geo.  D.,  New  York 10  00 

Lord,  Danl.  D.,  New  York 25  00 

Lord,  Thos.,  Evanston,  111 20  00 

Love,  John  B.,  Phila 10  00 

Low,  A.  A.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y 25  00 

Lowes,    J.    A.    S.,    (Rev.)  New 

Richmond,  Ohio 10  00 

Lowrey,  Mrs.  R.  S.,  New  York..  20  00 

Lowry,  Mrs.  A.  L.,  Phila 5  00 

Ludington,  C.  H.,  New  York. ..  10  00 
Ludington,    Mrs.     C.   H.,    New 

York 10  00 

Lyman,  C.  C,  Hartford  Ct 85  00 

Lyon,  M.  W.,  New  York 20  00 

Lyon,  Wm.  M.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  10  00 

Mackellar,  Thos.,  Germantown, 

Pa 45  00 

MacMartin,  Archibald,  New  York  10  00 

Magee,  Thos.,  San  Francisco 10  00 

Man,  A.  P.,  New  York 10  00 


Manierre,  B.  F.,  New  York 5  00 

Manly,  R.  F.,  Mobile,  Ala 10  00 

Markell,  Chas.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Marquand,  Allan,  Baltimore 10  00 

Marquand,  Fredk.,  New  York. .  225  00 

Martenet,  Simon  J.,  Baltimore.  10  Od 

Martin,  Wm.  C,  New  York 10  00 

Marvin,  Fred'k  R.,  (Rev.)  Mid- 

dletown,  N.  Y 10  00 

Marvin,  S.  S.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. .  .  10  00 
Marvin,    Tasker   H.,    Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Mather,  Roland,  Hartford,  Ct..  100  00 

Mathews,  Albert,  New  York. . .  10  00 

Ma3%  Abby  W.,  Boston 10  00 

May,  Joseph,  (Rev.)  Phila 10  00 

Maynard,  Rob't  B.,   Ainsworth, 

W.  T 10  00 

McAllister,  John  A.,  Phila.  ...  5  00 

McAlpine,  D.  H.,  New  York. . .  20  00 
McBirney,     Hugh,     Cincinnati, 

0 75  00 

McClellan,    Mrs.    C,  Hartford, 

Conn 10  00 

McClure,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.,  Albany, 

N.  Y 20  00 

McCoy,  A.  Ramsay,  New  York..  10  00 

McCreery,  Mrs,  Jas.,  New  York.  10  00 

McDowell,  W.  S.,  Baltimore 10  00 

McElrath,  Thos.,  New  York 5  00 

McGiIl,  John,  Petersburg,  Ya. . .  10  00 
McGowan.    A.    B.,  Ft.   Apache, 

Arizona 10 

Mclver,  Geo.  W., Charleston, S.C.  10  00 
McKim,  Jr.,  Haslett,(Rev.)  New- 
burgh,  N.  Y 20  00 

McLanahan,    Mrs.    J.    X.,    New 

York 25  00 

McMillan,  John,  (Rev.)  Phila.  . .  10  00 

McMurtrie,  A.  C,  Phila 25  00 

McNair,     Hugh    T.,   Dansville, 

N.  Y 10  00 

McNeill,    Geo.  R.,   Wood  Leaf, 

N.  C 20  00 

McNutt,  W.  F.,  San  Francisco. .  10  CO 

McPherson,  JohnB.,  Harrisburg  10  00 

McWilliams,  John,  New  York.  .  10  00 

Mead,  Fredk.,  New  York 5  00 

Mead,   Joseph  S.,  Brooklyn,  E. 

D.,  N.  Y 5  00 

Meekins,  E.,  Springfield,  Mass.  10  00 

Meredith,  Miss  C.  K.,  New  York  10  00 

Meredith,  R.  R.,  So.  Boston 10  00 

Merriam,     Chas.,      Springfield, 

Mass 10  00 

Merriam,    Otis   W.,    San    Fran- 
cisco    20  00 

Merrick,    Thos.   Belsham,    New 

York 10  00 

Merrill,  Mrs.  Payton,  New  York  5  00 
Merrill,     Willard,     Milwaukee, 

Wis 5  00 

Merrill,  W.  F.,  New  York 10  GO 

Merriman,    Danl.,   (Rev.)   AVor- 

cester,  Mass 10  GO 


170 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


Middlebrook,  E.  R.,  New  York.  10  00 
Middlcbrook,  S.  M.,  Bridgeport, 

Conn 10  CO 

Miller,  Edgar  G.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Miller,  E.  Rothesay,  (Rev.)  Yok- 

ohcama,  Japan 25  "00 

Miller,  John  W.,  New  York 2  00 

Mills,  James  M.,  Now  York 30  00 

Milne,  Alex.,  New  York 30  00 

Minis,  Mrs.  S.  A.,  ]]altimore.  ...  10  00 
Minor,  John  B.,  Charlottsville, 

Va 10  00 

Mitchell,      Alex.,      Milwaukee, 

Wis 5  00 

Mitchell,    C.  B.    &  J.    F.,    New 

York 50  00 

Mitchell,  C.  G.,  Dobb's   Ferry, 

N.  Y 30  00 

Mitchell,   John  J.,    Newburgh, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Mitchell,  Yv".  B.,  Jivspcr,  Tenn. .  10  00 

Mix,Eldridge.(Rev.)Orange.N.J  10  00 

Moak,  Nathan  C,  Albany,  N.  Y.  20  00 

Moffett,  Jas.  G.,  New  York 15  00 

Moncll,  G.  C,  Omaha,  Neb 10  00 

Monroe,  Ebenezei-,  New  York. .  10  00 

Monroe,  Elbert  B.,Sonthport,Ct  10  (JO 

Moore,  Dennis,  Hamilton,  Ont.  10  00 

Moore,  W.  H.  H.,  New  York.  . .  .  200  00 

Morgan,  E.  P.,  Cleveland,  0. .  .  5  00 

Morgan,  J.  Pierpont,  New  York.  100  00 

Morriil,  Chas.    J.,  Boston 50  00 

Morris,  Israel,  Phila 200  00 

Morris,  Theo.  W.,  New  York. .  .  10  00 

Morris,  Thos.  J.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Morris,  Wistar,  Overbrook,  Pa..  200  00 

Morrison,  E.  A.,  New  York.    ...  5  00 

Morsc.Richd.C, (Rev. )New  York  10  00 
Mulford,   Mrs.   Robt.   L.,    New 

York 5  00 

Mumford,  Miss,  New  York 10  00 

Munger,  H.  R.,  New  York. 10  00 

Munii,  Mrs.  O.  D.,  New  York. .  .  30  00 
Munsell,  E.  B.,  Cape  May,  N.  J.  10  00 
Murkland,  W  U.,  (Rev.)  Balti- 
more   10  00 

Murray,  Mrs.  Lydia  S.,  Carlisle, 

Pa 10  00 

Nash,  Benett  H.,  Boston 10  00 

Neff,  Peter,  Gambler,  0 10  GO 

Neglev,  W.  B.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  10  00 

Nell,  Henry  D.,  Phila 10  00 

Nelson,   H.    A.,  (Rev.)   Geneva, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Newberry,  John  T.,  Augusta,  Ga.  10  00 
Newmyer,   John  C,  Pittsburgh, 

Pa 10  00 

Nichols,  G.,  New  York 4  00 

Nichols,  Gideon  P.,  Milwaukee, 

Wis 5  00 

iTorcross,  Otis,  Boston 50  00 

Norrie,  Adam,  New  York 30  00 

Northrup,    Mrs.     J.   E.,    Centre 

Brook,  Conn 10  00 


Noye,  Richd.  K,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.  10  00 

Oaklev,  Henry  A.,  New  York. ..  10  00 

O'Brien,  L.  M.,  Fort  Scott,  D.T.  10  00 

Odell,  Mrs.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  . . .  10  00 

Ogden,  Isaac  C,  New  York 10  00 

Olmsted,  Theodore  F.,  Geneseo, 

N.  Y ]0  GO 

Orrock,  J.  M.,  (Rev.)  Boston. .  .  10  00 
Orton,    Mrs.  Jas.   S.,    Geneseo, 

NY 10  00 

Osborne,  Geo.,  Peabody,  Mass..  10  00 
Osborne,     John     H.,     Auburn, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Ould  Robt.,  Richmond,  Va 10  00 

Owen,  T.  L.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. ...  10  0  J 

Packard,  A.  A.,  Springfield, Mass  10  00 
Paddock,  Benj.  H.  (Bishop),  Bos- 
ton   10  00 

Palmer,  Wm.  B.,  Olivet,  Mich. .  10  00 
Park,    R.    H..    (Rev.)  Reynolds- 
burgh,  0 10  00 

Parker,  Horatio  G.,  Boston 10  00 

Parker,  Mrs.  J.  H.,  Charleston, 

S.  C 10  CO 

Parker,  Ransom,  New  York. ...  20  00 

Parker,  Willard,  New  York tO  CO 

Parlett,  B   F.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Parsons,  John  E.,  New  York. .  .  125  00 

Partridge,  Edwm  F.,  Phila 10  00 

Paton,  John,  New  York 10  00 

Patton,  JohnM.,  Bentivoglio,  Va  10  00 
Patton,  W.  W.,  (Rev.)  Washing- 
ton, D.  C 10  00 

Peabodv,  Geo.  F.,  Brooklyn,  N.Y  10  00 

Pearse  &  Co.,  A.  F.,  New  York.  50  00 

Pehon,  J.  M.,  New  York 5  00 

Perkins,  Jr.,  E.  H,,  Baltimore. .  10  00 
Perkins,  Mrs.  Oilman  II.,  Roch- 
ester, New  York 10  00 

Perkins,  Jos.,  Cleveland,  O 30  00 

Perry,  I.  A.,  New  York 10  CO 

Pert,  L.  B.,  New  York 10  00 

Phelps,  Mrs.  A.  G.,  New  York.  .  20  CO 
Phelps,  S.  Drvden,   (Rev.)  Hart- 
ford, Conn 10  00 

Phelps,  AV.  S.,  Dayton,  0 10  00 

Philips,  Saml.,  New  York 10  GO 

Phinizy,  Chas.  H.,  Augusta,  Ga.  10  00 

Picrson,  J.  P.,  Trov,  N.  Y 10  00 

Pinkerton,  J.  M.,  Boston 30  00 

Piper,  W.  T.,   Cambridge,  Mass  10  GO 

Plumer,  Avery  Boston 25  CM) 

Plummer,  John  F.,  New  York. .  25  00 

Porter,  John  K.,  New  York.. . .  45  GO 

Porter,  S.  S.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  .  25  00 

Post,  Alfred  C,  New  York 15  00 

Post,  Uvfi.  L.  H.,  New  York.  ...  2  00 

Post,  Mrs.  Wm.,  New  York 10  00 

Post,  Wriglit  E.,  New  York 10  00 

Potter,  Howard,  New  York 120  00 

Potter,  Mrs.  Wm.  li.,  Kingston, 

R.I 10  00 

Potwin,  W.  S.,  Chicago 10  GO 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


171 


Powers,  Thos.  H.,  Phila 300  00 

Powers,  W.  P.,  New  York 10  00 

Pratt,  Enoch,  Baltimore    10  00 

Pratt,  S.  B.,  Boston, 10  00 

Prentice,  Sartell,  Chicago,  111. . .  15  00 

Prentice,  W.  P.,  New  York 25  00 

Preston,  W.  I.,  New  York 20  00 

Price,  Anderson,  New  York. ...  10  00 

Prime,  Kalph  E.,  Yonkers,  N.  Y.  10  00 

Prime,  Rnfus,  New  York 10  CO 

Pugh,  Miss  Esther,  New  York. .  10  00 
Pumi^hrej'.  Stanley,  Worcester, 

England 10  00 

Purcell',      E.      B.,     Manhattan, 

Kansas 25  00 

Purves,  Wm.,  Phila 10  00 

Pyne,  Percy  R.,  New  York 100  00 

Quincy,  John  W.,  New  York.  . .  10  00 

Ramsey,   Francis,    Green  Tree, 

Pa 10  00 

Ramsey,     Samuel,     Reedsbnrg, 

Wis 10  00 

Randolph  &  Co.,  A.  D.  F.,  New 

York 10  00 

Rankin,    Ilcnry   W.,    Madison, 

N.  J GO  00 

Raven,  A.  A.,  New  York 20  00 

Raynolds,  C.   T.,  New  York 10  00 

Read,    Cha3.    H.,    (Rev.)   Rich. 

mond,  Va 10  00 

Redfield.  John  H.,  Phila 10  00 

Reding,  C.  L.,  Norwalk,  0 10  00 

Redner,  Lewis  H.,  Phila 25  00 

Renwick,  Henry  B.,  New  York.  10  00 

Renwick,  Jas.  A  "  10  00 
Reynolds,  N.  L.,  Mt.  Pleasant, 

Pa 10  00 

Rhoads,  James  E.,  Phila 10  00 

Rice,  E.  W.,  (Rev.)  Phila 25  00 

Rice,  Joseph  A.,  Bethlehem,  Pa  10  00 
Richardson,  Mrs.    C,  E.    Stam- 
ford, Conn 5  00 

Richardson,    E.    T.,    Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Richardson,  George  C,  Boston.  100  00 

Richarlson,  H.  W.,  Phila 10  00 

Richmond,     Frank    E.,    Provi- 
dence, R.  1 50  00 

Riplej',  Jos.  B.,  Savannah,  Ga.  .  10  00 
Roberts,   James  B.,   San  Fran- 
cisco    20  00 

Roberts,  Marshall  0.,  New  York  145  00 

Rochester,  R.   H.,  New  York.  .  .  5  00 

Rockwood,  Chas.  G.,Newark,N.J  10  00 
Rogers,  Miss  H.  B.,   Northamp. 

ton.  Mass 10  00 

Rogers,  J.  August,  New  York.  ..  20  00 

Rollins,  E.  A.„  Philadelphia,  Pa  10  00 
Roosa,    D.    B,   St.    John,   New 

York 15  00 

Roosevelt,  Alfred,  New  York.  .  .  10  00 

Roosevelt,  Jas.  A.,  New  York.  ..  10  00 

Roosevelt,  Mar}%  New  York 10  00 


Roosevelt,  W.  Emlen,  New  York  10  00 

Ropes,  John  C,  Bo.'ton 30  00 

Ropes,  J.  S.,  Boston 25  00 

Ross,  A.   Hastings,   (Rev.)  Port 

Huron.  Mich 10  00 

Rowell,  G.  P.,  New  York 10  00 

Rumsey,  C.  E.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  10  00 

Sabine,  G.  A.,  New  York 20  00 

Sage,  G.  A.,  New  York 15  00 

Salesbui'v,    John,    (Rev.)    Cox- 

sackie,  N.  Y 10  00 

Salisbury,  E.,  New  Haven,  Ct. .  85  00 

Sammis,'Danl.  P.,  New  York.  ..  15  00 

Sampson,  A.  &E.  C,  New  York.  50  00 

Sampson,  Edw.  C,  New  York.  .  10  00 

Sandford,  T.  H.,  Montclair,  N.  J  .'■>  00 

Santee,  Chas.,  Phila 75  00 

Sawver,  Mrs.    S.    A.,  Allegheny 

City,  Pa 5  00 

Sawver,  W.  J.,  Allegheny  City, 

Pa ".....'..  5  00 

Scarborough,  W.  W.,  Cincinnati, 

0 200  00 

Scattergood,  Thos.,  Phila 10  00 

Schieffelin,  H.  M.,  New  York   ..  15  00 

Schiefifelin,  Jas.  L.,  New  York. .  30  00 

Schieffelin,  S.  B.,  New  York. ...  55  CO 

Schoals,  F.  P.,  New  York 20  00 

Schuyler,  Leila,  New  York 10  CO 

Schwab,  Gustav,  New  Y'ork 10  00 

Scott,  Jas.  B.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. . .  10  00 
Scott,  W.  A.,  (Rev.)  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 10  00 

Scull,  Mrs.  A.   P.,  Phoenixville, 

Pa 5  00 

Seeley.  R.  H  ,  Haverhill,  Mass. .  10  00 

Selchow,  E.  G.,  New  York 10  00 

Selleck,  A.  D.,  New  York 10  00 

Sellew,  T.  G-.,  New  York 10  00 

Seward,   Augustus,  (Rev.)   Red 

Bank,  N.J 10  CO 

Shallus,    Frank   H.,    Baltimore, 

Md 10  00 

Sharpe,  Ebenezer,  Indianapolis, 

Ind 10  00 

Shaw,  J.  P.,  Lexington,  Ky.  ...  10  00 

Shea.  C.  B.,  Pittsburgh,   Pa 10  00 

Sheafe,  J.  F.,  New  York 100  00 

Sheare,  Mrs.  M.  M.,  New  York.  10  00 

Shearman,  Thos.  G.,  Newl^ork.  25  00 

Sheldon,  Jas.  0.,  New  York   ...  20  00 

Shepard,  Elliott,  F.,  New  York.  100  00 
Shepard,    Sidney,   New  Haven, 

N.  Y '. 10  00 

Sherrard,  Thos.  J.,  Brookville, 

Pa 10  00 

Sherrill,     Mrs.     Samuel,     West 

Bloomfield,  N.  Y 10  00 

Shiells,  Robt..  Neenah,  Wis..    .  5  00 

Shilito,  John,  Cincinnati,  O TO  (lO 

Shinn,  Jas.  T,  Phila 10  00 

Simmons,  Chas.  E.,  Chicago,Ill.  10  00 
Simonton,  John  W.,  Harrisburc, 

Pa ;.  10  00 


]72 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


Sinclair,  John,  Now  York 75  00 

Sinclair,  T.   M.,  Cedar  Eapids, 

Iowa 5  00 

SIridmore,  Wm.  L.,  New  York. .  40  00 

Slade,  Fredk.  J.,  Trenton,  N.  J.  10  00 

Slade,  Mrs.  L.,  New  York 20  00 

Slover,  W.  G.  F.,  New  York 10  00 

Sloane,   W.   &  J.,    New  York..  113  00 
Smith,  Benj.   H.,    Luna  Land- 
ing, Arkansas 1 0  GO 

Smith,   B.  Pressley,  Charleston, 

S.  C 10  00 

Smith,  D.  Townsend,  Greenville, 

S.  C 10  00 

Smith,  CorneliusB.,  (Ilev.)Ne\v 

York 10  00 

Smith,  Draper,  Plymouth,  Pa.. .  10  00 

Smith,  E.  B.,  Kidgefield,  III. .  ..  10  00 
Smith,  E.  G.,  (Kev.)  Morrison, 

111 10  00 

Smith,  Garni.  G.,  New  York. .. .  15  00 

Smith,  Isaac  E.,  New  York 10  00 

Smith,  Miss  Mary  L.,  Evanston, 

ni 5  00 

Smith,  E.  F.,  Cleveland,  0 10  00 

Smith,  Saml.  G.,  (Rev)  St.  Paul, 

Minn 20  00 

Smith,  Sylvester,  New  Haven.Ct  10  00 

Smith,  S.  M.,  Dunkirk,  N.  Y. . .  10  00 

Smith,  Thos.  P.,  Charleston.  S.C.  10  00 

Smith,  Wm.  Alex.,   New  York. .  70  00 

Smith,  Wm.  E.,  Madison,  Wis.  5  00 
Smith,  W.  H.  H.,  Washington, 

D.  C 10  00 

Sneed,  Mary  C.  Kirkwood,  Mo.  10  00 
Southmayd,   Mrs.    C.    G.,    New 

Orleans,  La 10  00 

Sparks,  Mrs.  Jared,  Cambridge, 

Mass 100  00 

Speare,  Alden,  Bo.ston 25  00 

Spence,  Wm.  W.,  Baltimore 20  00 

Spencer,  Mrs.  C.  L.,  New  York..  200  00 
Spencei-,  Miss  F.  L.,  Erie,  Fa. . .  10  00 
Sprunt,  James,  Wilmington,N.C.  30  00 
Stanger,  I.  Newton,  (Rev.)  Cin- 
cinnati, 0 10  00 

Staples,    M.    W.,    (Rev.)   Rich- 
mond, Va 10  00 

Starr,  Egbert,  New  York 15  00 

Starr,  Mrs.  S.  M.,  New  York. ...  20  00 
Stearns,  J.  G.  D.,    (Rev.)   Zum- 

brota,  Minn 10  00 

Stearns,  Jno.,  N.,  New  York 70  00 

Stebbins,  S.  N.,  New  York 10  00 

Steele,  Robt.   E.,  Rockingham, 

N.  C 10  00 

Steere,    Henry   J.,   Providence, 

R.  1 100  00 

Sterett,  Saml.  H.,  New  York 5  00 

Sterling,  J.  C,  Watertown.  N.  Y.  5  00 

Sterling,  John  W.,  New  York. . .  10  00 

Stcrry,  Geo.  E.,  New  York 20  00 

Stettinius,  John  L.,  Cincinnati, 

O 50  00 

Stevens,  F.  W.,  New  York 100  00 


Stevens,  Thos.,  Louisville,  Ky. .  30  00 
Stewart,       Bryce,      Clarksviile, 

Tenn 20  GO 

Stewart,  John  A.,  New  York. ...  10  00 

Stickney,  J.  Hcnrv,  Baltimore.  .  5  00 

Stillc,  C.  J. ,  Phila" 5  00 

Stokes,     Anson     Phelps,     New 

York 200  00 

Stokes.Miss  C.  Phelps, New  York  10  GO 

Stokes,  Miss  O.  P.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Stone,  A.,  Cleveland,  Ohio 50  00 

Stone,  Leander,  New  York 10  GO 

Stone,  Levi  P.,  Orange,  N.  J. .  .  10  00 
Stone,  Miss  Mary  K.  A.,  Somer- 

ville.  Mass 10  00 

Storrs,  R.  A.,  New  York 10  GO 

Stout,  A.  v..  New  York 100  GO 

Stowell,  C.  L.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  10  00 
Strong,   Chas.    R.,  (Rev.)   New 

York 10  00 

Strong,  Miss  M.,  New  York 5  00 

Strong,  Selah  B.,  Setauket,  N.  Y.  10  00 

Stroud,  G.  M.,  Phila 100  GO 

Stuart,  George  H.,  Phila 25  00 

Stuart,  R.  I).  &  A.,  New  York. .  200  00 

Stuart,  Robt.  L.,  New  York 25  00 

Sturges,  Miss  Susan,  Mansfield, 

Ohio 10  GO 

Stuyvesant,     Rutherford,     New 

York 50  00 

Sullivan,  A.  S.,  New  York 20  00 

Summerbell,  Martyn,  (Rev.)  Fall 

River,  ilass 10  00 

Sumner,  Sarah  F.,  Albany  N.  Y.  10  00 

Swan,  L.  M.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. .  .  10  00 
Swinnev,   Jas.    O.,    Keytesville, 

Mo": 10  00 

Taber,   Wm.   C,  New  Bedford, 

Mass 10  00 

Taft,  Jas.  H.,  New  York 25  00 

Taggart,   R.    B.,   Mt.   Pleasant, 

Pa  4  GO 

Talman,  W.  G.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  5  GO 

Tappan,  E.  T.,  Gambler,  0 10  GO 

Tarbox,  Myron  H.,Lockport,N.Y  10  00 

Tatham,  Bcnj.,  New  York 40  GO 

Tatum,  Edward,  New  York 10  00 

Taylor,  Alfred,  New  York 10  00 

Taylor,  Charles,  New  York 5  00 

Taylor,  Charles  S.,  Burlington, 

N.  J 40  00 

Taylor,  W,  M.,  (Rev.)  New  York.  10  00 

Teague,    A.    S.,  Troup,   Texas.  10  00 

Tcrbcll,  H.  S.,  New  York 20  00 

Terry,  (Rev.)M.  S.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Terry,  Stephen,  Hartford,  Conn  10  00 

Thaw,  Wm,,  Pittsburgh,  Pa. ...  250  00 

Thomas,  Jas.  Carey,  Baltimore..  10  00 
Thompson,   Mrs.    David,     New 

York 75  GO 

Thompson,  John B.,. (Rev.) Cats- 
kill,  N.  Y 10  GO 

Thompson,  Morris  S.,  New  York  15  00 
Thomson,  H.   C,   (Rev.)   Mon- 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


173 


terey,  Mexico 10  00 

Thompson,  S.  H.,  (Rev.)  Healds- 

burg,  Cal 10  00 

Thorndike,  Anna  B.,  Chicago,  111  10  00 

Thorne,  Jonathan,  New  York. . .  10  00 
Thwing,    Annie    H.,     Jamaica 

Plain,  Mass 10  00 

Tiffany,  C.  C,  (Rev.)  New  York  10  00 
Tilton,  Benj.  R.,  Cambridgeport, 

Mass 10  00 

Tison,  Alex.,  Olivet,  Mich 10  00 

Tod,  Miss  Julia  B.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Tompkins,  H.  B.,  New  York 10  00 

Tompkins,  John  A.,  Baltimore.  10  00 

Torrance,  I.  H.,  (Rev.)  Phila. .  .  10  00 
Torrey,  A.   A.,   (Rev.)  Garretts- 

ville,  Ohio   10  00 

Torrey,  Chas.  W.,  Richwood,  O.  10  00 
Townsend,  Miss  Ellen,  Newport, 

port,  R.  1 20  00 

Townsend,  F.    W.,  New  Berlin, 

New  York 5  00 

Townsend,  John  B.,  New  York.  10  00 

Tracy,  Chas.,  New  York. 20  00 

Tracy,  J.  Evarts,  New  York. ...  10  oo 

Trask,  Alanson,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  20  00 
Tredwell,  Caroline  C,  Danbury, 

Ct 10  00 

Trevor,  John  B.,  Nlw  York. ...  200  00 

Trowbridge,  F.  E.,  Nev>^  York. .  5  00 

Turner,  Wm.  W.,  Hartford,  Ct.  10  00 

Tattle,  Esther  B.,  Baltimore. . .  10  00 

Tyler,  A.  W.,  Indianoplis,  Ind..  10  00 

Tyson,  James  W.,  Baltimore. ...  10  00 

Tyson,  Jesse,  Baltimore 10  00 

Tyson,  M.  D.,  Baltimore 10  00 

Vail,  C.  E.,  Blairstown.  N  J. .. .  10  00 

Van  Arsdale,  Henry,  New  York.  10  00 

Vandorbilt,  Cornelius,  New  York  200  00 
Van    Deurs,    Geo.,   (Rev.)   New 

York... 10  00 

VanRensselaer,  Alex.,  New  York  25  00 

Van  Vorst,  Hooper  C,  New  York  10  00 
Van  Wagenen,    Bleecker,    New 

York 10  00 

Van   Winkle,   J.    S.,    San  Fran- 
cisco    5  00 

Vaux,  George,  Phila 15  00 

Venable.Chas.  S., Charlottesville, 

Va 10  00 

Vincent,  J.  H.,  (Rev.)  Plainfield, 

N.  J 10  00 

Vinton,  Alex.   H.,  (Rev.)   Pom- 
fret,  Conn 10  00 

Vose,   James  E.,  Ashburnham, 

Mass 10  00 

"Waith,  Wm.,    (Rev.)  Lancaster, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Walker,  Eugene  A.,  Victor, Iowa  10  00 

Walker,  Geo.  E.,  Saybrook,  O. .  10  00 
Walker,    Geo.    Leonard,  (Rev.) 

Hartford,  Conn '.  .  . .  10  00 

Walker,  Mrs.  L.  H.,  Leaksville, 


N.  C 10  00 

Wallace,  J.  Duff,  New  York ....  10  00 

Wallace,  James  P.,  New  York. . .  10  00 
Waller,  Mrs.  Julia,  Bloomsburg, 

Pa 10  00 

Wandell,  B.  C,  New  York 10  00 

Ward,  Miss  Ellen  M.,  Boston. ..  5  00 

Ward,  L.  B.,  New  York 10  00 

Warren,  S.  D.,  Boston 100  00 

Warren,  Mrs.  S.  D.,  Boston 150  00 

Washington  City  Bible  Society, 

Washington,  D.  C 10  00 

Waters,  Horace,  New  York 10  00 

Watkins,  Dr.,  Montclair,  N.   J.  .  5  00 

Watson,  Chas.  L.,  San  Francisco  5  00 
Webster,    Chas.   A.,    Galesburg, 

111  10  00 

Weeden,   Wm.    B..  Providence, 

R  1 100  00 

Weiss,  John  H.,  Harrisburgh,Pa.  10  00 
Wells,  Chas.  J.,  Stapleton,  S.  I., 

NY 20  00 

West,     Mrs.    Jno.     Kingsbury, 

Pittsfield,    Mass 10  00 

Wharton,  R.    G.,    Port  Gibson, 

Miss 10  00 

Wheeler,  E.  P.,  New  York 10  00 

Wheeler,     H.     M.,    Worcester, 

Mass 10  00 

Wheelock.  Wm.  A.,  New  York..  30  00 

Y\'heless,  John  F.,Nashville,Tenn  20  00 

Whitall,  Jas.,  Phila 25  00 

White,  Chas.  T.,  New  York 15  00 

White,  Francis,  Baltimore 10  00 

White,    Joseph,   Williamstown, 

Mass 10  00 

White,  Norman,  New  York 60  00 

White,  Rebecca,  Fernwood,  Pa.  10  00 
Whitins,     Paul,      Whitinsville, 

Mass 10  00 

Whitney,  Edwd,  Worcester,  Mass  10  00 

Whitney,  Mrs.  James,  Phila 5  00 

Whitney,  J.  R.,  Phila 5  00 

Whitney,  W.  B.,   Germantown 

Pa  10  00 

Whitridge,  W.  H.,  Baltimore     .  10  00 

Whittemore,  W.  T.,  New  York  .  10  00 

AVhyland,  W.  J.  P.,  New  York  .  5  00 

Wickham,  D.  H.,  New  York. ...  10  00 

Wickham,  W.  H.,  New  York. . .  15  00 

Wilder,  E.  C,  New  York 5  00 

Wilkinson,  J.  G.,  Newburgh,N.Y  10  00 
Willets,  Mrs.  J.  T.,  New  York. .  5  00 
Willets,  Robt.  R.,  New  York. .  .  5  00 
Williams,     Frank    B.,    Youngs- 
town,  Ohio 10  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  J.  L.,  Richmond, 

Va 10  00 

Williams,  Phihp  C,  Baltimore.  10  00 
V/illiams,  Rob't  A.,  Coal  Valley, 

WVa 10  00 

Williams,   Thos,  C,  Richmond, 

Va 10  00 

Wilson,  Jas.  P.,  (Rev.)  Newark, 

N.J 10  00 


174 


CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  REVISION  FUND. 


Wilson,  W.  E..  Baltimore 10  0^ 

Wilson,  Wm.  White,  (Eev.)  Kit- 

taning,  P.i 20  00 

Wmn,  John, (Rev.)  Madison, Wis  10  00 
Winslow,  J.  F.,    Poiighkeepsie, 

N.  Y 50  00 

Winslow,   Mrs.   M.    H.,  Aurora, 

111 20  00 

Winsor,     Mrs.     A.     A.    Cotes, 

SpringfleUl,  N.  Y 10  00 

Winston,  F.  S.,  New  York 30  GO 

Winthrop.   Mrs.     H.     E.,   New 

York 20  00 

Winthrop,  11.  C,  Boston 50  00 

Wither.-; poon,  T.  D.,  (Eev.)  Pe- 
tersburg, Va 10  00 

Wolcott,  Fred'k  H.,  Astoria, N.Y.  10  00 

Wolfe,  Miss  C.  L.,  New  York.  .  .  700  00 

Wood,  Mrs.  J.  E.,  Philadelphia.  150  00 

Wood,  Walter,  Phila   25  00 

Wood  &  Co.,  E.  D.,  Phila 100  CO 

Wood,  Wm.  II.  S.,  New  York. . .  20  00 

Woodbridge,  C.  L.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Woodruff,  Chas.  H.,  New  York.  10  00 

Woodward,  Sanil.  A.,  New  York,  10  00 

Woolsey,  Miss  Jane  Stuart 10  00 

Woolsey,     T.     D.,    (Eev.)     New 

Haven,  Ct 75  00 

Wright,  J.  T.,  Janesville,  Wis.  .  5  00 

Wright,  M.  C,  Monticello,  N.  Y  10  00 

Ycaman,  Mrs.,  New  York 7  00 

Young,  Lewis  Gourdin,  Charles- 
ton, S.  C 10  00 

Zabriskie,  Eev.  Mr.,  Montclair. 

N.  J 5  00 

CHUECH  COLLECTIONS. 

Central  Congregational  Church, 

New  Haven,  Ct 40  00 

Fourth  Presbyterian  Church, 
Albany,  N.  Y.,  by  Eev.  Dr. 
Darling 50  00 

Central  Presbyterian  Church, 
(Eev.  Dr.  Shaw's)  Eoches- 
ter,  N.  Y 15  00 

North  Presbyterian  Church  (Eev. 

Dr.  Calkins,)  Buffalo,  N.  Y.       20  55 

Presbyterian  Church  of  the  Cov- 
enant, (Eev.  Dr.  Vincent's) 
New  York,  (exclusive  of 
other  contributions  from  in- 
dividual members,  acknowl- 
edged above) 75  90 

Fourth  Avenue  Presbyterian 
Church,  (Eev.  Dr.  Crosby's) 
New  York,  (exclusive  of 
other  contributions  from  in- 
divided  members,  acknowl- 
edged above) 10  00 


Calvary  Baptist  Church,  (Eev. 
Dr.  IMcArthiir's)  New  York, 
(exclusive  of  other  contribu- 
tions from  individual  mem- 
bers, acknov.'ledgcd  above).     150  00 

Asylum      Hill     Congregational 

Cliurch,  Hartford,  Ct 10  00 

Madison  Square  Presbyterian 
Church,  (Eev.  Dr.  Tucker's) 
New  Yoric,  (exch;sive  of 
other  contributions  from  in- 
dividual members,  acknowl- 
edged above) 87  52 

Westminster  Presbyterian  Ch., 
(Eev.  Dr.  Eobert's)  Eliza- 
beth, N.  J 25  00 

Union   Sixth   Ave.    Eef.    Dutch 

Church,  New  York 10  00 

First  Presbyterian  Church,  (Eev. 

Dr.  Eel's, )  Oakland,  Cal. ...       58  55 

First  Congregational  Church, 
(Eev.  Dr.  Stone's)  San 
Francisco,  Cal.  (collections 
at  Union  Service 58  75 

Presbyterian  Church,  (Eev.  Dr. 
Noyes')  Evanstown,  111., 
(collection  at  Union  Meet- 
ing)        23  19 

Second  Presbyterian  Chuich, 
Kansas  City,  Mo.  (collection 
at  Union  Meeting) 9  13 

First  Presbyterian  Church,  (Rev. 
Mr.  Kerr's\  Denver,  (]ol., 
(collection  at  Union  Meet- 
ing)  ., 21  96 

Second  Presbyterian  Church, 
(Eev.  Dr.  Gibbon's)  Chica- 
go, 111.,  (collection  at  Union 
Service)   45  00 

First  Presbyterian  Church, 
(Eev.  Dr.  Mix's),  Orange, 
N.J 40  00 

Fourth  Presbyterian  Church 
(Eev.  Dr.  French's),  Chica- 
go        25  00 

Westminster  Presbyterian  Ch., 
(Rev.  Dr.  Ludlow's)  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y 45  00 

Fourteenth  Street  Presbyterian 
Church,  (Eev.  Dr.  Marl- 
ing's).  New  York 22  35 

Church  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
(Rev.  Dr.  McVickar's,  Phil- 
adelphia, (exclusive  of  oth- 
er contributions  from  indi- 
vidual members  acknowl- 
edged above) 132  93 

First  Presbyterian  Church,  Penn 

Yan,  N.  Y 1 0  00 


APPENDIX 


LIST  OF  CONTRIBUTORS. 


Subscriptions  from  March  ist,  i88i,  to  May  iith,  1883. 


Abbott,  Kobert   S.,  Kalkaska, 

Mich $10  00 

A  Friend  (tli rough  Dr.  Green)  200  00 

A  Friend 20  00 

Albertson,  J.M.,Norristown,Pa  10  00 

Alexander,  J.  F.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Alexander,  Jas.  W.,  New  York  20  00 
Allen,  Arthur  H.,  (Rev.)  Islip, 

L.  I.,  N.  Y 20  00 

Allen,  R.  D.  H.,  Terry ville,Ct.  20  00 
Allen,  Richard   H.,    Chatham, 

N.  J 30  00 

Anshutz,  John  P., Philadelphia, 

Pa 30  25 

Arrasby,  A.,  Millbury,  Mass. . .  20  00 

Auchincloss,  Hugh,  New  York  20  00 

Bacon,  Mrs.   Josiali  M.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa 10  00 

Bacon,R.  W..Philadelpliia,Pa.  10  00 

Bailey, John H., Pittsburgh, Pa.  10  00 
Bailey,  Mr.  and   Mrs.   M.    C, 

Allegheny  Citv,  Pa 10  00 

Baker,  11.  E.,  Detroit,  Mich...  20  00 

Baldwin,  J.  G.,  New  York 20  00 

Baldwin,  M.  G.,  NewYork.  . .  .  20  00 
Ballantyne&  Son,  Wm.,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C 10  GO 

Ballou,    Augustus,     Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Banta,  Theo.  M.,  New  York. .  30  00 

Barclay,  Lyman  T., Whitby, Ont  10  00 

Barnes,  A.  S.,  New  York 20  00 

Barnes,  Theo.  M.,  NewYork.  .  20  00 
Barnier,  John  J., Brooklyn, N.Y  10  00 
Barry,  Chas.  C,  Boston,  Mass.  10  00 
Bartlett,Mrs.  M  .  Boston,  Mass.  20  00 
Bates,  Jas.  L..  Columbus, Ohio  20  00 
Bayard.  C.  P..  Germantown,  Pa  10  00 
Beadleston,  W.  H.,  NewYork  20  00 
Bedell,  G.  T.,  (Bishoj))  Gam- 
bier,  Ohio 30  00 

Beekman,  Gerard,  NewYork..  20  00 

Belknap,  R.  L.,  New  York.. . .  20  00 

Bell, Thompson, Pittsburgh,Pa.  10  00 


Bennett,  Edmund  H., Taunton, 

Mass 10  00 

Benton,  A.E.,  (Rev.)  Montrose, 

Pa 20  00 

Bettle,  Wm.,  Philadelphia, Pa.  10  00 
Bettle,  Edward,  Jr.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 20  00 

Bevan,  L.  D.,  (Rev.)  New  York  10  00 
Biddle,   Mrs.   C.  C,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 20  00 

Biddle,   Edwaid   C,  Philadel- 
phia   40  00 

Biddle.  Jas.  8.. Pliihidelphia,Pa  10  00 
Biddle,  Mrs.  Thomas  A.,  Phila- 
delphia   20  00 

Bill,  A.  W.,  (Rev.)  Menominee, 

Michigan 5  00 

Bingham,  David,  Orange,  N.J.  10  00 
Bingham,  W.  A.,  WestDejoere, 

Wis 10  00 

Binney,  Miss  M.,  New  York. . .  10  00 
Bishop,  Mrs.  Caroline  C,  New 

York 20  00 

Bixby,  Mrs.  Adelaide  C.,Comp- 

ton,  Cal 10  00 

Blatchford,E.W., Chicago,  111.  20  00 

Bliss,  C.  N.,  New  York 30  00 

Bogert,  Henry  A.,  New  York.  20  00 
Bookstaver,    Henry   W.,    New 

York 10  00 

Born,P.,(Rev.)Selinsgrove,Pa.  10  CO 
Bowerman,     Allan,     Farmers- 

ville,  Ont 10  00 

Boyce,  James  P.,  (Rev.)  Louis- 
ville, Ky 20  00 

Boyles.  W.,  Corydon,  Iowa...  10  00 
Bradbury,     Cyrus,    Hopedale, 

Mass  10  00 

Bradford,   Martin  L.,   Boston, 

Ma!5s...- 20  00 

Branch,  Thos.,  Richmond,  Va.  10  00 

Brand,  James,  New  York 20  00 

Bremer,  John  L.,  Boston,  Mass.  20  00 

Brewer,  H.  ©..Kansas  City, Mo.  20  00 

Brewer,  Jr.,  W.  A.,  New  York  10  00 


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Bright,  Marshall  H.,  Now  York  10  00 
Brinckerhotf,  Elbert  A.,  New 

York 100  00 

Brodie,Wni.  A.,  Genescn,  N.Y.  20  00 
LJrooks,  Phillips, (Rev.)  Boston, 

Mass 20  00 

Brown,  Alexander,  Phila 100  00 

Brown,  Geo.  S.,  Baltimore,  Md.  40  00 

Brown,  T.  Wistar,  Phila.,  Pa.  20  00 
Brown,  Wm.  J\I.,  (Rev.)  Rio  de 

Janeiro,  Brazil 10  00 

Brnnot, Felix R.,Pittsl)urgh,Pa  20  00 
Buchanan,  J.  I.,  Oil  City,  Pa. .  10  00 
Buck,   Miss  Mamie   C,   Balti- 
more, Md 20  00 

Bull,  Wm.  L.,  Philadelphia.  . .  10  00 

Bullock,  F.  S.,  Baltimore,  Md.  20  00 
Bullock,  W.  R.,  Wilmington, 

Delaware 30  00 

Bumstead,  N.  Willis,  Boston, 

Ma«s 40  00 

Burkhalter,  Stephen,  NewYork  20  00 

Bussing,  John  S.,  New  York. .  30  00 
Buttertield,H.Q., (Rev.)  Olivet, 

Mich 10  00 

Carpenter,  Edward  P.,  Pough- 

keepsie,  N.  Y 10  00 

Carpenter,  Jr.,  G,  M.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I 

Cash 

Chaffee,  Mrs.  Eugene  W., 
Moodus,  Conn 

Chambers,  Robt.  B.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  I 

Chambers,  W.  L.,  Chambers- 
burg,  Pa 

Chapman,  Geo.  R.,  Boston, Mass. 

(Jharlier,  Elie,  New  York 

Clark,  Wm.  Mortimer,  Toronto, 

Clarke,  Jno.  C-Vst. 'cia'ir,'Mich. 
Clark,  Wm.  N.,  New  York. .  . 
Clark,  Geo.  C,  Rushvillc,  Ind. 
C'iinch,  Edward  S..  New  York 
Cloats,  Jas.,  Providence,  R.  I.  . 
Cobb,    Miss    Annie    C,     New 

York 

Coffin,  Chas.  F.,  Richmond, Ind. 
Coles,  Barak  G.,  New  York. . . 
Collin,   Henry  P.,   Coldwater, 

]\Iich 

Collins,  IMrs.  Ellen,  New  York 
Combs,  John  W.,  New  York.  . 
Comstock,    Mis9  M.    L.,   New 

York 20  00 

Cond it.  Blackford, Terre  Haute, 

Ind 20  00 


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Conger,  Clarence R.,  NewYork 

Conkling,  B.  D.,  (Rev.)  Water- 
town,  Ct 

Cook,  Joseph  W..  BufTalo.N.Y. 

Cooke,  Jay,  Ashbourne,  Pa. .  . 

Cook,  Paul,  Troy,  N.  Y 

Cooper,  J.  W.,  (Rev.)  New 
Britain,  Conn 

Corliss,  Geo.  IT. ,  Providence,  R.  I 

Cornwall,  J.H., Patterson, N.Y. 

Crandon, Frank  P., Chicago, 111. 

C;resson,  Cha«.  Caleb,  Phila.  .  . 

Cresson,  Wm.  P.,  Philadelphia 

Cromwell,  i\Iiss  Caroline  A,, 
New  York 

Crowell,  Mrs.  C.  C,  Blair,  Neb. 

Cross,  Joseph,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

Cutting,  R.  F.,  Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Cutting,  Mrs.  W.  B.,  NewYork 

Dale,  J.  W.,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

Dana,  S.  H.,  (Rev.)  Stratford, 
Conn 

Darlington,  Miss  Eliza,  Pitts- 
burgh, Pa 

Davis,  Theo.  R.,  New  York. . . 

Davenport,  W.  R.,  Erie,  Pa... 

Day,  Henry,  New  York 

Deems,  J. Harry.  Baltimore, Md. 

De  Forest,  Jr.,  Marcus, Middle- 
bury,  Conn 

De  Forest,  Marcus,  M.D.,  Mid- 
dlebury.  Conn 

Delafield,  Lewis  L.,  New  York 

Dewey,  R.  S.,  Kankakee,  111.. 

De  Pew,  John,  New  York. . . . 

Denslow,  Chas.W.,  ]\Iendocino, 
Cal 

Dickey,  C.  D.,  N(!W  York 

Dickey,  Mrs.  H.  I.,  New  York 

Didama.  Mrs.  S.  jM.,  Syracuse, 
N.  Y 

Dodge,  Miss  S.  F.,  New  York 

Donaldson,  R.  A.,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 

Dornin,  W.  C,  New  York 

Douglas,  B.,  Chicago,  111 

Douglas,  Benjamin  J.,  (Rev.) 
Georgetown,  Del 

Drown,  Jas.  T.,  Boston,  Mass. 

Drown,  Thos.  M.,  Easton,  Pa. 

Dudley,  W.  S.,  Milledgeville, 
Georgia 

Dudley,  T.  U.,  (Bishop)  Louis- 
ville, Ky 

Dulles,  John  Welsh,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 

DuBois,  Frank  L.,  U.  S.  Navy 


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Dunnin<?hain,  F.  P.,  University 

of  Va.,  Va 10  00 

Durand,  John,  New  York 10  00 

Duryea,  S.  B.,  Brooklyn,  N.Y,  10  00 
Durant,  Wm.,   (Rev.)  Albanv, 

N.  Y '.  10  00 

Dwight,  John,  New  York 20  00 

Earle,  John  n.,  New  York 10  00 

Eiiton,  D.  G.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  20  00 

Elliott.  Jolin,  New  York 20  00 

Elmer,  Howard,  Wavcrly,N.Y.  30  00 

Emott,  James,  New  York 20  00 

Elv,  Ilornce  S.,  New  York 20  00 

Ely,  Nathan  C,  New  York. .  .  20  00 

Ely,  Wm.  D.,  Providence,  R.T.  20  00 

Errett,  Isaac,  Cincinnati,  O.  .  .  20  00 

Fairbanks,  Franklin,  St.  Jolins- 

bury,  Vt 20  00 

Fairbanks,    Henry,    St.   Johns- 
bury,  Vt 25  00 

Fancher,  E.  L..  New  York....  50  00 

Faris,  D.  S.,  (Rev.)  Sparta,  111.  10  00 
Faruam,   Henry,    New    Haven, 

Conn 100  00 

Farnum,    ]\Irs.    Elizabeth    H., 

Philadelphia 20  00 

Farwell,  P.  T..  Bopton,  Mass. .  10  00 
Fisher,     Richard     D.,     Balti- 
more, Md 20  00 

Fletcher,  Albert  E,  Indianapo- 
lis, Ind 10  00 

Force,  M.  F.,  Cincinnati,  O. .  .  30  00 
Francis,  Lewis,  (Rev.)  Brook- 
lyn, E.  D.,  N.  Y 10  00 

Frank,   Charles   A.,   Washing- 
ton, D.  C 10  00 

Frascr,   Chas.  A.,   Pto.   Plato, 

S.  Dominfjo 30  00 

Frazcr,  AbnerL.. Cincinnati, O.  10  00 

Fussell,  M.  T.,  Nev/  York 20  00 

Gammell,Wm.,Prov)dence.R.I  110  00 
Gehr,Geo.R.,Westminster,Md.  10  00 
Ge?t,  John  B.,  Philadelphia..  30  00 
Gilchrist.  A.    S.,   East  Mered- 
ith, N.  Y 10  00 

Gill,  Miss  Newark.  N.  J 10  00 

Oilman,  G.  D.,  Boston,  Mass.  .  10  00 
GiIman..TohnS.,Baltimore.Md.  20  00 
Goddard,  Tlios.   P.    I.,  Provi- 
dence, R.  1 20  00 

Goodrich,  E.  D.,  Boston. "Mass.  10  00 

Goodspecd.  H.  S.,  New  York.  10  00 
Goodwin,  D.  R,,  (Rev.)  Phila- 

deliihia.  Pa 10  00 

Gordon,  Robert,  New  York ...  20  00 
12 


Graham,   Wm.   H.,  Baltimore, 

Md 30  00 

Grant,  James.  Philadelphia,Pa.  10  00 
Gratz,  H.  S.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  20  (tO 
Graves,  E.  A.,  Morristown, N.J.  10  00 
Graves,  G.  M.,  Chicago,  Ills..  10  00 
Gray,  Geo.  C,  (Rev.)  Cam- 
bridge, Mass 20  00 

Graydon,  Miss  Mary  E.,  New 

York 20  00 

Green,  Geo.  S.,  Trenton,  N.  J.  20  00 
Greene,    Jacob  L.,    Hartfoid, 

C.Min 20  00 

Greene  &  Co.,  W.  L  ,  Boston, 

Mass 10  00 

Gregory,H.D.,Blairstown,N.J.  20  00 
Griffin,  Geo.   H.,  (Rtv.),  Mil- 
ford,  Conn 30  00 

GrifRth,  R.  H..  Rushville,  Ills.  10  00 

Guild,  J.  H.,  Rupert.  Vt 30  00 

Gulick,  N.   D.,   (Rev.)   Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y 10  00 

Hale,    John   P.,    (Rev.)    Mil- 
waukee, Wis 10  00 

Hale,    W.     B.,    Northampton, 

Mass 30  00 

Halsted,  J.  M.,  New  York ....  20  00 
Halsted,  Robt.,  New  York.  .  ..  20  00 
Hamerslev,  John  W., New  York  20  00 
Handy,  f.  P.,  Cleveland,  O...  20  00 
Hannett,  Jr.,  Chas.  E.,  New- 
port. R.  1 10  00 

Hard  wick,   B.    C,  Dorchester, 

Ma?3 20  00 

Hare,  R.  Emott,  Philadelphia, 

Pa 10  00 

Harmon.  E.,  (Rev.)  Winchester, 

N.  H 20  00 

Harris,  John  Campbell,  Phila- 
delphia   100  00 

Harrison,  Alfred  C,  Phila. ...  100  00 

Harrison,  Geo.L  ,  Philadelphia  20  00 
Harrison,  John  Jav.  (Rev.)  Sag 

Harbor.  L.  I.,"N.  Y 10  00 

Hart,  W.  O.,  New  Orleans,  La.  30  00 
Hertel,  C.   A.  E.,  (Rev.)  Lodi, 

Cal 10  00 

Hill,  J.  R.,(Rev.)St.Louis,Mo.  10  00 

Hill,  Wm.,  New  York 10  00 

Hilton,  Henrv,  New  York. ...  30  00 

Hincklev,  S.  T.,  Elgin.  III....  10  00 

Hitchcock, P.  M.,  Cleveland,  O.  25  00 
Hitchcock,  R.  D.,  (Rev.)  New 

York 10  00 

Hoe.  Robert,  New  York 25  00 

Holden,  Mrs.  Horace,  New  York  20  00 


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noliday,  TI.  M.,  (Rev.)  Allen- 
dale, Mich 10  00 

Ilolman,  A.  J.  «&  Co.,  Phila- 
delphia        60  00 

Holt,    Geo.   Hubl)ard,   Crested 

Butte,  Col 30  00 

Ilorsburgh,  Jr.,  Jus.,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 10  00 

Houghton,  H.O.,  Boston,  Mass.  20  00 
Ilovev,  Henry  E.,  (Rev.)Brook- 

Ivn,  N.  Y 10  00 

How,"  B.  W.,  New  York 20  00 

Howard,  Jas.  L.,  Hartford,  Ct.  6  00 
Howard,   Mrs.  Wm.  A.,  Grand 

Rapids.  Mich 10  00 

Hubbard  Bros.,   Philadelphia, 

Pa 25  00 

Huey,  Samuel B.,Philadelpliia, 

Pa 10  00 

Hughes,  II.  W.,  Cincinnati,  O.       10  00 
Hunnewell,  ]\Irs.  J.  F.,  Charles- 
town,  Mass 10  00 

Hunt,  A.  S.,  (Rev.),  Brooklyn, 

New  York 10  00 

Hunter,  Henry  T.,  (Rev.)  New 

York 10  00 

Huntington,  DanM,  New  York  20  00 
Huntington,   Henry  S.,  (Rev.) 

Gorham,  Maine 10  00 

Hurlbut,  Henry  A.,  New  York  50  00 
Huston,  A.  F.,  Coatesville,  Pa.  40  00 
Hutchinson,  Wm.,   Montclair, 

N.  .1   5  00 

Hyde,  H.  B.,  New  York 20  00 

Hyde,  Wm.,  Ware,  Mass 25  00 

Ives,Mrs.C.L., Burlington, N.J.  20  00 
Ives,    Wra.    A  ,    New    Haven, 

Conn 10  00 

Jackson,  W.  H.,  New  York.  .  .  20  00 
Jackson,  F.  Wolcott,  Newark, 

N.  J 25  00 

Jacobs,    Francis,  Westchester, 

Pa 30  00 


Jaffray,  Robert, New  York .... 
James,  D.  Willis,  New  York. . 
Jenks,  Henry  F.,  Boston,  Mass 
Jennings,  O.  B.,  New  York.  .. 

Jesu]),  M.  K.,  Nev/  York 

Jewell,  Chiis.  A.,  Hartford,  Ct. 
Jolinson,  Chas.  C, Norwich, Tt. 
Johnson,  Elias  H.,  Chester.Pa. 
Joiinson,  Sam'!,  Bo.ston,  Mass. 
Jones.  Jacob  P.,  Philadelphia, 

Pa 

Jones,  Lewis,  New  York 


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Keller,  P.  A.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  20  00 
Kellev,  Wm.  V.,  (Rev.)  Brook- 
lyn, E.  D.,  N.  Y 10  00 

Kennedy,  John  S.,  New  York.  100  00 

Kent,  Mrs.  E.  A.,  New  York..  20  00 

Kidder,  H.  P.,  Boston,  Mass..  20  00 
King,   Francis  T.,   Baltimore, 

Md 20  00 

King,  J.  F.,  New  York 30  00 

King, Wm.L.,Morristown. N.J.  10  00 

Kip.  L.W.,(Rev.)  Amoy,  China  20  00 
Kirtiand.M'-s.  A.  T.  E., Orange, 

N.  J 5  00 

Kittred ae,  J.  E. ,  ( Rev. )  Genesco, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Knight,  Sam'l,  St.  Loui.s,  Mo.  10  00 
Knowles,  Mrs.  C.H.,  Westfleld, 

Jilass 10  00 

Lafon.  Miss,  Louiville,  Ky. .  .  .  30  00 
Lambert,    John,   Philadelphia, 

Pa 20  00 

Lamberton,  R.  A.,  South  Beth- 
lehem, Pa 10  00 

Lane,  Geo.  W.,  New  York.  ...  20  00 

Lane,  S.  M.,  Southbridgc,Mass.  20  00 
Langdon,  Woodbury  G.,  New 

York 20  00 

Latham,  H.  D.,    (Rev.)  Madi- 
son, Conn 10  00 

Law,  ^y.  W. ,  New  York 10  00 

Learned, L.C  ,NewLondon,Ct.  10  00 

Leiter,  Levi  Z.,  Chicago,  Ills.  .  100  00 

Letchworth,  J.,  Auburn,  N.Y.  20  00 
Lewis,  H.  A.,  (Rev.)  Carlisle, 

N.  Y 30  00 

Lewis,  H.  F.,  Chicntro,  111. . . .  20  00 

Lewis,  Z.  Edwards,  New  York  30  00 

Lincoln,  P.  S.,  New  York. . . .  10  00 

Little,  Geo.T.,  Braintrce,  Mass.  30  00 
Lloyd,     T.    A.,    (Rev.)    West- 

Chester,  Pa 10  00 

Lockwood,  A.  D.,  Providence, 

R.  1 20  00 

Long,  John  D.,  Boston.  Mass.  10  00 
Logan,    J,     Lewis,     Nicholas- 

ville,  Ky 10  00 

Lord,  D.  D.,  New  York 20  00 

Lord,  Tlios.,  Chicairo,  111 20  00 

Lowrv,  Mrs.  Anie  L.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 5  00 

Lyman,  C.  C,  Hartford,  ("t.  .  .  20  00 

MacGowan,  A.  B.,  Fort  Apache 

A.  T 20  00 

MacKe'llar.Thos.,  Philadelphia  20  00 
Mackintosh,  W.  S.,  Pittsburgh, 

Pa.... 30  00 


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179 


Martin,  Geo.C,  Brooklyn, KY.  10  00 
MacManus,     Mrs.     Susan     R., 

Phila.,Pa 10  00 

Macy,    Miss  M.  Josie,   Lewis- 

ville,  Ind 10  00 

Magie,  Ann  F.,  Elizabeth, KJ.  10  00 

Mai^ie,  AV.  E.,  New  York 10  00 

Magie,  AY.  J.,  Elizibelh,  N.  J.  10  00 

Man,  A.  P.,  New  York 20  00 

Marshall,  Benj.,  New  Straits- 

ville,  O 10  00 

Marshall,   James,    (Rev.)  New 

York 10  00 

]\rarsliall,  Henry  P.,  New  York  10  00 
Mason,  M.  B.,  Boston,  I\Iass..  30  00 
Mather,  Roland,  Hartford,  Ct.  20  00 
May,  Jos.,  (Rev.)  Philadelphia  20  00 
McAlpine,  D.  H.,  New  York. .  20  00 
]\IcCall,5Irs.  Jas.  N.,  New  York  10  00 
McClenthen,  Wm.  T.,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa 10  00 

McClung,     C.   M.,    Knoxville, 

Tenn 10  00 

McColIom,  Jno.    H.,    Oswego, 

N.  Y 30  00 

McKcllip,  AVm.  A.,   Westmin- 
ster, Md 10  00 

McKim,  Jr.,    Haslett,     (Rev.) 

Newbiirgh,  N.  Y 20  00 

Meridian,  John,  Philadelphia, 

Pa 20  00 

McMurtrie,R.  C, Philadelphia, 

Pa 20  00 

Menzies,  Wm.,  New  York. ...  10  00 
Merriam,     Chas.,     Springdeld, 

Mass 20  00 

Merrill,     J.     Warren,    Boston, 

Mass 150  00 

Middlcbrook,    S.   M.,    Bridge- 
port, Ct 20  00 

Mills,  James  M.,  New  York.    .  20  00 
Miller,    E.     Rothe-say,     (Rev.) 

Tokiyo,  Japan 20  00 

Milne,  A.,  New  York 20  00 

Minor,    John    B.,    Charlottes- 
ville, Va 20  00 

Minturn,  R.  B.,  New  York. .  .  30  00 
Mitchell,    Elizabeth   N.,    New 

York 10  00 

Moak,  N.  C,  Albany,  N.  Y.  .  .  20  00 

Monroe,ElbertB  ,Southport,Ct  20  00 

Moore,  Dennis.  Hamilton,  Ont.  20  00 

Moore,  W.  H.  H.,  New  York.  20  00 

Morgan,  Geo.  H.,  New  York..  40  00 

Morris,  Israel,  PhiIadelphia,Pa.  120  00 

Morris,  Wistar,  Philadelphia, Pa  40  00 
Mumford,   Miss    A.    S.,    New 

York 20  00 

Hunger,  H.  R.,  New  York. ...  20  00 


NefiF,  Peter,  Gambler,  Ohio ...  20  00 
Neilson,  MissMeta,  New  Bruns- 
wick, N.  J 10  00 

Norcross,  Otis,  Boston,  Mass..  20  00 

Normal  Class,  Jackson,  Mich.-  10  50 

Norrie,  Adam,  New  York 20  00 

Odell,  Mrs.  S.  P.,  Newport,R.I.  10  00 
Osborne.  Mrs.  A.  M.,  Catskill, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Osborne,  J.  H.,  Auburn,  N.  Y.  20  00 

Ozanne,  P.  M.,  Cleveland,  O.  .  10  00 

Paine.  C.  F.,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  10  00 
Palmer.     Clias.     Ray,     (Rev.) 

Bridgeport,  Ct 10  00 

Palmer,  Wm.  C,  New  York..  10  00 

Palmer,  Henry,  Chester,  Pa. .  .  20  00 
Parker,  Mrs.  J.  H.,  Charleston, 

S.  C 20  00 

Parsons.  John  E.,  New  York. .  20  00 
Paul,  Henry  N. ,  Pliiladelphia, 

Pa 10  00 

Peckham,    Miss     Addie     M., 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y 10  00 

Pendleton, Edward  W., Detroit, 

Mich 10  20 

Pennock  Geo.,  Philadelphia  . .  30  00 
Perkins,  E.   T.,    (Rev.)  Louis- 
ville, Ky 10  00 

Perkins,  Joseph,  Cleveland,  O.  20  00 
Pettit,  E.  R.,  Philadelphia, Pa.  10  00 
Phares,  D.L.,  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, Mississippi 30  00 

Piercej^Geo.A.,Providence,R.L  30  00 
Piper,    Wm.    T.,    Camln-idge, 

Mass 20  00 

Polhemus,  I.  H.,  (Rev.)  Mexico 

Citv,  Mexico 10  00 

Post,  Wright  E.,  New  York. .  20  00 

Potter,  Howard,  New  York.  . .  20  00 
Potwin,  T.  S.,  (Rev.)  Hartford, 

Conn 10  00 

Powers,  Wm.  P.,  New  York. .  20  00 

Prime,  Miss  Nina,  New  York.  30  00 

Prime,  Ralph E..Yonkers,N.Y.  20  00 
Pruyn,  Jr.,   J.    V.  L.,  Albany, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Purves,  Wm.,  Philadelphia.Pa.  20  00 
Putnam,  A.    P.,  (Rev.)  Brook- 
lyn, N.  Y 10  00 

Quincy,  John  W.,  New  York. .  20  00 

Raven,  A.  A.,  New  York 20  00 

Redfield,    John   H.,    Philadel- 
phia, Pa 20  00 

Reed,  Chas.  H.,   (Rev.)  Rich- 
mond, Va 10  00 


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Reese,   Jas.   W.,   (Rev.)  West- 
minster, Md 10  00 

Renwick,  Henry  13.,  Kew  York  20  00 
Rice,  Joseph  A., Betlilehem, Pa.  20  00 
Richardson, C.E.,  Stamford, Ct.  5  00 
Richardson,  Ilnnnah  W.,  Phil- 
adelphia, Pa 20  00 

Roberts,  John  E.,  Providence, 

R.  1 30  00 

Robertson,  Thos.  D.,  Rockford, 

Illinois 00  00 

Robie,  Edwiiid,   (Rev.)  Green- 
land, N.  H 30  00 

Robinson,  D.  S.,  Baltsburg,  Pa.  10  00 

Rockwell,  Jas.,  Utica,  N.  Y.  .  10  00 
Rogers,    Fordyce   II.,  Detroit, 

Mich 10  00 

Rollins,  E. A.,  Philade]phia,Pa.  50  00 

Roosevelt,   Jas.  A.,  New  York  100  00 

Ropes,  J.  C,  Boston,  IMass 20  00 

Ross,  A.  Hastings,  (Rev.)  Port 

Huron,  Mich 20  00 

Ross,  E.  A.,  Albany,  N.  Y. .. .  10  50 

Salisbury,     Edward    E.,    New 

Haven,  Conn 20  00 

Santee,  Chas.,  Philadelpliia.  .  .  20  00 
Savajje,  ]\Irs.    Saraii  C. ,   Phila- 
delphia, Pa 10  00 

Sawyer,  W.  J.,  Allegheny  City, 

Pa '. 20  GO 

Scatterfjfood,  Geo.  J.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 10  00 

Scattergood,  Mary,  Phi  la 20  00 

Scattergood,  Thomas,  Phila. .  .  20  00 
SchafT,     Philip.     (Rev.)    New 

York no  00 

Schwab.  Gustav,  New  York..  20  00 

SchielTelin,  II.  M.,  New  York.  20  00 

Scott,  Jas.  B.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  20  00 
Scott,    J.    Alexander,    Orange, 

N.  J 10  00 

Scull,  Jr.,  David  and  Edward 

L.,  Philadelphia,  Pa 30  00 

Selleck,  A.  D.,  New  York 20  00 

Second     Congregational    Ch., 
Richforfi.  111.,  by  Rev.  F. 

P.Woodbury 20  00 

Shea,  C.  B.,  Pittsburgh,  Pa.  ..  20  00 
Shearman,  T.  G.,  New  York..  20  00 
Sharpc,   Thos.  IL,  Indianapo- 
lis, Ind 10  00 

Shearer,  Thos..  Baltimore,  Md.  10  00 

Sheldon,  Smith,  New  York.  .  .  10  00 

Sh(])ard,  Elliott  F.,  New  York  20  00 
Sliepard.  Sidney,  New  Haven. 

N.  Y 60  00 

Shepard,  Mrs.  Sidney,   Clifton 

Springs,  N.  Y 20  00 


Simmons,    Chas.  E.,   Chicago, 

Ills 20  00 

Sinclair,  John,  New  York 20  00 

Sinclair,  ]\Irs.  Thos.  M.,  Cedar 

Rapids,  Iowa 20  00 

Skidmore,  Wm.  L.,  New  York.  20  00 
Skinner,  Norman  N.,  Clinton, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Slater,  II.  K,  Wel)ster,   Mass.  10  00 

Sloan,  Samuel,  New  York 20  00 

Smiley,   Aliiert  K.,   I^ake  Mo, 

liouk,  N.  Y 48  GO 

Smith,  Daniel.  Jlobile,  Ala...  10  00 
Smith,  Earnest  L.,  New  York.  10  00 
Smith,  Jas.  Willsun,  Sag  Har- 
bor, L.  I.,N.  Y 10  00 

Smith,  Sylvester,  New  Haven, 

Conn 20  00 

Smith,  S.  P.,  Orange,  N.  J. .  .  10  00 
Smith.    Mrs.    S.    P.,    Orange, 

N.  J 10  00 

Smith,  Wni.  Alexr.,  New  York.  20  00 
Smith,    ]\Irs.    Wm.    H.,    New 

Britain,   Conn 30  00 

Sparks,  ]\Irs.  Jarcd, Cambridge, 

Mass 25  00 

Speare,  Alden,  Boston,  ]\Iass.  .  20  00 

Spence,W.W.,  Baltimore,  JSId.  20  00 

Spencer,  Wm.,  Erie,  Pa 10  00 

Starr,     ]\Irs.    Sarah    M.,    New 

York 30  00 

Stearns,    J.  G.  D.,  Zumbrota, 

Minn 20  00 

Stebbins,  S.  N.,  New  York.  .  .  20  00 

Stednian,EraundC  ,NewYork.  30  00 
Sterling,    J.     C  ,     Watertown, 

N.  Y 5  00 

Sterling,  John  AV.,  New  York.  20  00 

Sterry,  Geo.  E.,  New  York. . .  10  00 
Stewart,     Bryce,     Clarksvillc, 

Tenn 40  15 

Stewart,  John  A.,  New  York.  20  00 
Stickney,  J.  Henry,  Baltimore, 

Md 20  00 

Stimson,  Henry  A.,  Worcester, 

Mass 30  00 

Stokes,    Anson    Phelps,    New 

York 20  00 

Stone,  Elizabeth  B.,  New  York  10  00 

Stone,  Mary  M.,  New  Y(n-k.  .  .  10  00 

Stcme,  Mary  S.,  New  York. ...  10  00 

Stone,  Suniner  R  ,  New  York.  30  00 

Studley,  Mrs.  II.,  New  York.  .  10  00 
Sumner,    Sarah     F.,    Albany, 

N.  Y 20  00 

Swan,   Lvndon  M.,   Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 20  00 

Sweeting,  T.  Henry,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 10  00 


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181 


Swift,  Rowland,  Hartford,  Ct.  10  00 

Taber,  Wm.  C,  New  Bedford, 

Mass 20  00 

Taft,  Jas.  IT.,  New  York 20  00 

Tallmau,  Mrs.    W.  G.,  Brook- 
lyn,  N.  Y 20  00 

Talcott,  Wait,  Rockford,  Ills.  30  00 
Talmadt,'e,      ]\Irs.      Elizabeth, 

Wcsttield,  Mass 30  00 

Tatum,  Edwd.,  New  York.  ...  20  00 
Taylor,   Clms.   S.,   Burlington, 

N.  J 100  00 

Taylor,  Edgar  D.,  Richmond, 

Va 10  00 

Taylor,   John  P.,   (Rev.)  New 

London,  Conn 10  00 

Taylor,  .IohnW.,Ne\vark,N. J.  10  00 
Terry,  Roderick,  (Rev.),   New 

York 30  00 

Terry,  Stephen,  Hartford,  Ct. .  20  00 
Tew,  Willis,  Jamestown,  N.Y.  30  00 
Terry,  i\I.  S.  (Rev.),  New  York  20  00 
Theol.  Seminary  Library,  Gam- 
bier,  0 10  00 

Thomas,  Edwd.  Isaiah, Boston, 

Mass 10  00 

Thomas,    Geo.,    West    White- 
land  P.  O.,  Pa 30  00 

Thompson,  Chas.   O.,  Worces- 
ter, ISIass 10  00 

Thompson,    John    B.,    (Rev.), 

Catskill,  N.  Y 30  00 

Thomson,  H.    C,   (Rev.),  Mon- 
terey, Mexico 20  00 

Thorne,  Jonathan,  New  York.  20  00 

Tilton,  Henry,  New  York 30  00 

Tompkins,  H.  B..  New  York.  20  00 
Torrev,  D,  (Rev.),  Cazenovia, 

N.  Y 10  00 

Townsend,.JohnP.,  NewYork,  20  00 
Townsheud,     Mary    L.,    New 

York 10  00 

Tracy,  Chas.,  New  York 20  00 

Tracy,  J.  Evarts,  New  York .  .  20  00 
Trask.  Alanson,  Brooklyn,  N. 

Y 20  00 

Trow,  John  F.,  New  York 10  00 

Trowbridge,  F.  E  ,  N.  Y 5  00 

Tuttle,  Wm.  P.,  New  York. . .  10  00 

Vail,  C.  E.,  Blairstown,  N.  J..  20  00 
Vail,    R.  P.    H.  (Rev.),   Stam- 
ford, Ct 10  00 

Valentine,  John  J.,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 20  00 

Van  Amringe,J.H.,New  York,  10  00 

Vanarsdale,  Henry,  New  York.  20  00 


Vandeibilt,  Cornelius,  New 
York 

Van  Wagenen,  Blcccker,  New 
York 

Vaux,  Geo.,  Pliiladelphia 

Vaux,  Jr.,  Geo.,  Pliiladelphia, 
Pa 

Vaux,  Miss  Mary  M.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 

Vaux,  Jr.,  Wm.  S.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 

Viele,  Maurice  E.,  Albany,N.Y. 

Vroom,  Geo.  A,,  New  York.. 


Wadsworth,  Strong,  Stapleton, 
S.  L,  N.  Y 

Wallace,  J.  Duff,  NewYork.. 

Warren,  Mrs.  S.  D.,  Boston, 
Mass 

Warren,  S.  D.,  Boston,  Mass. . 

Wells,  Chas.  J.,  Stapleton,  S. 
L,  N.  Y 

West,  Chas.  E,,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y 

Wheelock,  Wm.  A..  NewYork 

Whitall,  Jas.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa 

White,  Geo.  II.,  Jersey  City, 
N.  J 

White,  Joseph,  Williamstown, 
Mass 

White,  Rebecca,  Feruwood, 
Pa 

Whitney,  JohnR.,  BrynMawr, 
Pa 

Whitney,  W.  B.,  Germantown, 
Pa 

Whitridge,  Wm.  H.,  Balti- 
more, Md 

Willets,  R.  R.,  New  York 

Williams,  Edward  C,  Oak- 
land, Cal 

Williams,  Frank  B.,  Youngs- 
town,  O 

Williams,  Mrs.  J.  B.,  Ithaca, 
N.  Y 

Williams,  J.  Henry,  (Rev.) 
Amherst,  Va 

Williams,  Meade  C,  (Rev.) 
Princeton,  Ills 

Williams,  Thos.  C  Richmond, 
Va 

Williams,  W.W.,  (Rev.)  Balti- 
more, Md 

Williamson, Jas.,  (Rev.)  Acton, 
Ind 

Willing,  H.  J.,  Chicago,  Ills.. 


20  00 

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Willoughby,  J.  D.,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 10  00 

Winslow,    John    F.,     Pough- 

keepsie.  N.  Y 20  00 

Winthrop,   Mrs.    H.    R.,    New 

York 20  00 

Wintringliara,     J.      P.,     New 

York 70  00 

Winthrop,  R.  C,  Boston, Mass.       20  00 

Wolfe,  Miss  C.  L.,  New  York.       20  00 

Wood,    Walter,    Philadelphia, 

Pa 100  00 

Woodburv,    Frank    P.,  (Rev.) 

RockYord,  III 10  00 

Woolcy,  Joseph  J.,  Pawtucket, 

R.'l 10  00 


OF  CONTRIBUTORS. 

Wortman,  Denis,    (Rev.)   Fort 

Plain,  N.  Y 10  00 

Wright,  Miss  Fanny  M.,  Hart- 
ford, Conn. .  . .' 10  00 

Wright,    John    W.,     Camden, 

N.  J 00  00 

Younaans,  R.  II.,  New  York.  .        10  GO 

Younglove,  John  E.,  Bowling 

Green,    Ky 80  00 

Young  Men's  Bible  Class, Pres- 
byterian Church,  Stam- 
ford, Ct 10  00 

Youn<;  Men's  Christian  Asso., 

New  York , .       10  00 


APPENDIX 


TO 


LIST  OF  CONTRIBUTORS. 


Subscriptions  from  May  iith,  1883,  to  February  3D,  1885. 


Alexander,  Jas.  W.,  New  York.  $10  00 
Anshutz,    John    P.,    Phidadel- 

phia,  Pa 12  50 

Andrews,  John  W.,  Columbus, 

Ohio 25  00 

AUiuson,  Jas.,  Yardville,  N.  J.  25  00 
Armstrong,  Miss  Sarah  H.,  New 

York 30  00 

Applcton,  E.  W.  (Rev.),  Ash- 
bourne, Pa 30  00 

Austin,  Jas.  C,  Chambersburg 

Pa 30  00 

Allen,    R.    D.    H.,   Pequabuek, 

Conn 10  00 

Archbold,  John  D.,  New  York.  42  50 
Agnew,  Alexander  McL.,  New 

York 30  00 

Aitken,  John  W.,  New  York. . .  30  00 

Adams,  Edward  D.,  New  York.  140  GO 

Bingham,    W.    A.,    West    De 

Pere,  Wis 20  00 

Bittinger,  J.  B.  (Rev.),  Se wick- 
ley.  Pa 20  00 

Barnes,  Theo,  M.,  New  York. .  10  00 

Brown,  Geo.  S.,  Baltimore 20  00 

Bumstead,  N.  Willis,  Boston.  .  20  00 

Brown,  T.  Wistar,  Philadelphia  10  00 

Blatchford,  E.  W.,  Chicago,  111.  10  00 

Brunot,  P.  R.,  Pittsburgh  Pa. .  10  00 
Berard,  Miss  A.  Blanche,  West 

Point,  N.  Y 30  00 

Butler,  Chas..  New  York 30  00 

Beadleston,  W.  H..  New  York.  10  00 

Brown,  Alex'r,  Philadelphia.  .  .  32  50 

Browne,  Henry  H.,  Brooklyn.  .  20  00 

Brodie,  Wm.  A.,  Geneseo,  N.  Y.  10  00 

Blair,  Wm.,  Chicago,  111 25  00 

Bryce,  James  P.  (Rev.),  Louis- 
ville, Ky 10  00 

Barlow,  G..  Brooklvn 30  00 

Beokman,  Gerard,  New  York  . .  10  00 
Bedell,  G.  T.  (Rt.   Rev.),  Gam- 
bier,  0 10  00 

Bliss,  Cornelius  N.,  New  York.  25  00 
Brouwer    Theophilus    A.,  New 

York 30  00 

Brimmer,  Martin,  Boston 30  00 

Barnier,  John  J.,  Brooklyn 30  00 

Banta  Theo.  M.,  New  York 10  00 


Bacon,  Miss  Helen  R.,  Philadel- 
phia   $30  00 

Bascom,  John,  Madison,  Wis. .  30  00 

Burr  Chas.  H.  (Rev.),  New  York  30  00 
Butler,    Wm.    Allen,    Yonkers, 

N.   Y 42  50 

Burnet,  R.  W.,  Cincinnati,  0. .  30  00 

Billings,  Fred'k,  New  York 4-2  50 

Blakeman,  Birdseye,  New  York  42  50 
Buchanan,   Jas.    1.,    Pittsburg, 

Pa 30  00 

Ball,  Mrs.  John,  Grand  Rapids, 

Mich 30  00 

Brewer,  W.  A.  Jr.,  New  York.  25  00 
Biddle,    Edward    C,    Philadel- 
phia   10  00 

Biddle,  Wm.  P..  Philadelphia.  10  00 

Brinckerhoff,  E,  A.,  New  York.  25  00 


Cresson,  Chas.  C,  Germantown, 

Pa 10  00 

Carpenter,   G.  M.,   Providence, 

R.  1 10  00 

Condit,  Blackford,  Terre  Haute, 

Ind 10  00 

Conger,  C.  R.,  New  York 10  00 

Collins,  Ellen,  New  York 5  00 

Cresson.  Wm.  P.,  Philadelphia  10  00 

Cook,  Mrs.  Anna  R.,  New  York  25  00 
Curtis.  Geo.    W.,  New  Haven, 

Conn 42  50 

Charlier,  Elie,  New  York 30  00 

Cook,  Paul.  Troy,  New  York.  .  142  50 

Clark,  Geo.  C,  Rushville,  Ind.  10  00 

Charlton.  John,  Delhi,  Ont 30  00 

Cauldwell,  W^m.  A.,  New  York  30  00 

Cooke,  Jay,  Shoemakertown,  Pa.  30  00 

Cochran,  H.  C,  Philadelphia..  30  00 

Chittenden,  S.  B.,  Brooklvn.  .  .  42  50 

Coffin,  Jr.,  Edmund,  New  York  25  00 

Colgate,  Samuel,  Orange,  N.  J.  37  50 
Cooper,  James  W.  (Rev.),  New 

Britain,  Ct 25  00 

Gushing,  G.  W.  B.  (Rev.),  New 

York 30  00 

Caughey,   John  A.,    Pittsburg, 

Pa 30  00 

Coffin,  Lemuel,  Philadelphia  .  .  30  00 

Cutting,  W.  Bayard,  New  York  30  00 


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Clark,  W.  Mortimer,  Toronto, 

Can $10  00 

Carpenter,  F.  W.,  Providence, 

R.I 43  50 

Davis,  0.  F. ,  Omaha,  Neb 30  00 

Day,  Henry,  Morristown,  N.  J.  30  00 

Dulles.  J.  \V.,  Plijkdclphia 10  00 

Day,  Frank  A.,  Boston 30  00 

Dodge,  Jr.,  Wm.  E.,  New  York  100  00 
Denslow,  Chas.  W.,  Mendocino, 

Cul 10  00 

Davenport,  W.  R.,  Erie,  Pa. . .  25  00 
Dudlev,  T.  U.  (Rt.  Rev.),  Louis- 

vi'llc,  Ky 30  Qd 

Dornin,  Wm.  C.,  New  York...  25  00 

De  Forest,  H.  G.,  New  York. . .  100  00 

Durand,  John,  Rochester,  N.  Y.  100  00 

Dodge,  Mrs.  Wm.  E.,  New  York  30  00 

Drown,  Jas.  T.,  Boston 10  00 

Dunlop,  John,  Richmond,  Va. .  30  00 
Didama,  Mrs.  H.  D.,  Syracuse, 

N.  Y 25  00 

Dennet,  A.  W.,  New  York 30  00 

Errett,  Isaac,  Cincinnati,  0 . . . .  10  00 

Edwards,  Waiter,  New  York. .  30  00 

Fairbanks,  Franklin,  St.  Johns- 
bury,  Vt 10  00 

Freeland,  Tlieo.  11. ,  New  York  25  CO 

Force,  M.  h'.,  Cincinnati,  O 25  CO 

Fisk,  Clinton  B.,  New  York  ...  42  50 

Fancher,  E.  L.,  New  York 100  00 

Field,  Cyrus  W.,  New  York. . .  30  00 

Fiske,  Josiali  M..  New  York. . .  42  50 

Fish,  Hamilton,  Nev/  York 100  00 

Fritz,  G.  W.,  Scranton,  Pa 30  00 

Farnham,  W.    H.,   Milwaukee, 

Wis 30  00 

Farnam,  Mrs.  Henry,  New  Ha- 
ven, Conn 10  00 

French,  Jonathan.  Boston 73  50 

Franklin  Ave.  Presbvt.  Church, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y.' 30  00 

Gregory,  II.  D.  (licv.),  Philadel- 
phia   10  00 

Gray,    Geo.     Z.    ^Rev.),    Cam- 
bridge, Mass 25  00 

Gcst,  John  B.,  Philadelphia  ...  10  00 
Goddard,  Wra.  T.,  Providence, 

R.  1 10  00 

Graham,  Wm.  II.,  Baltimore..  10  00 
Griffin,  G.  H.  (Rev.),   Milibrd, 

Conn 10  Of) 

Gilmiin,  John  S.,  Baltimore  ...  10  00 

Gallatin,  Albert  R.,  New  York.  25  00 

Gastcn,  Jane,  Brooklvn 30  00 

Gates,  Caleb  F.,  ChicajTO.  111. .  .  30  CO 

Green,  Caleb  S  ,  Trenton,  N.J.  30  00 

Greene,  Steplien,  Philadeluhia.  100  00 

Goodwin,  J.  J.,  Now  York 42  50 

Grant,  Wm.  S.,  Philadelphia. .  137  50 


Gouchcr.  John  F.,  Balitmore.  .  ^25  00 

Garrett,  T.  Harrison,  Baltimore  IGO  00 

Gray,  S.  R.,  Albany,  N.  Y 30  00 

Hawkes,  W.  S.,  (Rev.),  So.  Had- 

ley  Falls,  Mass 30  CO 

Hyde,  H.  B.,  New  York 10  CO 

Huntington,  Dan'l,  New  York.  10  00 

Halstead,  Robt. ,  New  York 10  CO 

Harris,  John  Campbell,  Thila. .  8  00 

Harbison,  S.  P.,  Pitt:^buro-,  Pa.  30  00 

Hoyt,  Oliver,  Stamford,  Conn  .  25  GO 

Hitchcock,  P.  M.,  Cleveland,  0.  42  50 
Hazard  Rov.'land,  Peace  Dale, 

R.  1 100  00 

Hunneweli,   Jas.    F.,    Charles- 
town,  Mass 25  00 

Hagerman,   J.    J.,   Milwaukee, 

Wis 30  00 

Henderson,  C.  M.,  Chicago,  III.  30  00 
Halstead,     I'earson     S.,     New 

York 25  00 

Hildreth,    E.    (Rev.),    Colorado 

Springs,  Col 30  00 

Hunt,  E.  K.,  Hartford.  Conn. .  30  00 

How,  B.  W. ,  New  York 10  00 

Ilorsburg,  Jr.,  Jas.,  San  Fran- 
cisco, Cal 100  00 

Hammond,  W.  B.,  New  York.  42  50 

Hovt,  Jas.  M.,  Cleveland,  O.  . .  25  00 
Halsey,     A.    W.    (Rev.),     New 

York 30  00 

Hunt,  G.  H.,  Baltimore 42  50 

Harris,    I.    N.,    New  London, 

Conn 25  00 

Holt,  Geo.   Hubbard,   Chicago, 

111 30  00 

Irvin,  Richard,  New  York 25  CO 

Inches,  Martin  B.,  Boston 30  00 

Ivison,  David  B.,  New  York. . .  42  50 

Jackson,  P.  A.,  Philadelphia. .  SO  00 

Jones,  Jacob  P.,  Philadelphia..  10  00 
Jewell,    Chas.     A.,     Hartford, 

Conn 10  00 

Jennings,  0.  B.,  New  York 10  00 

Jackson,  W.  11.,  New  York...  10  00 
Johnson,    Mrs.    Charlotte    A,, 

Boston 25  00 

Johnson,  Rcvcrdy,  Baltimore..  30  00 
Jessamine   Co.     Bible    Society, 

Nicholas vi lie,  Ky 25  00 

Jacobs,    Francis,    Westchester, 

Pa  30  00 

Johnson,  Jas.  R.,  Ccshocton,  0.  25  00 

J  unkin,  George,  Philadelphia..  25  00 

Jesup,  Morris  K.,  New  York. .  10  00 
Johnston,   John    Taylor,    New 

York 25  00 

Kilbourne,  Chas.  T.,  New  York  70  00 

Kennedy,  John  S.,  New  York.  .  27  50 

King,  Francis  T.,  Baltimore...  80  00 


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Kennedy,    Robt.    Lenox,    New 

York $100  00 

Kissam,  Mrs.  L.  H.,  Brooklyn.  73  50 
Kins;',    Wra.     L.,    Morristown, 

N.  J 25  00 

Kins:sley,    H.  C,  New  Haven, 

Conn 30  00 

Kearney,     E.     S.,      Portland, 

Oregon 30  00 

Kniglit,  Samuel,  St.  Louis 30  00 

Kip,  Geo.  G.,  New  York 43  50 

Keller,  P.  A.,  Philadelphia,  Pa.  10  00 

Lamberton,  R.  A.,  Bethlehem, 

Pa 20  00 

Law,  W.  W.,  New  York 20  00 

Lockwood,  Radcliffo  B.,  Bing- 

hamton,  N.  Y 20  00 

Lane,      S,     M.,     Southbridge, 

Mass 10  00 

Lord,  Thos.,  Chicago,  111 10  00 

Lewis,  11.  P.,  Chicago,  111 10  00 

Leai-ned,    J.    C,  New  London, 

Conn 30  00 

Lyman,  Theo.,  Hartford,  Conn.  10  00 

Low,  Setli,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y 42  50 

Lee,  G.  W.  C,  Lexington,  Va,  42  50 
Love,  John  B.,  Philadelphia.   .  25  00 
Lawrence,     Amos     A.,     Cam- 
bridge, Mass 30  00 

Ludington,  C.  II.,  New  York. .  25  00 

Lord,  D.  D.,  New  York 30  00 

Latham,  D.  D.,   New  London, 

Conn 30  00 

Livingston,  I\liss  Frances,  New 

York 30  00 

Lawton,  Mrs.  A.  R.,  Savannah, 

Ga 30  00 

Morse,  R.  C.  (Rev.),  New  York.  30  00 
McGowan,  A.  B  ,  Pel  ham,  N.  Y.  10  00 
McMurtrie,  R.  C,  Philadelpliia  10  00 
Moore,  W.  H.  H.,  New  York. .  10  00 
Mc Alpine,  D.  II.,  New  York  . .  10  00 
McKim,  H.  (Rev.),  New  York..  10  03 
Moak,  N.  C,  Albany,  N.  Y...  10  03 
Monroe,  E.  B. ,  Southport,  Conn.  30  00 
Mum  ford.  Miss  A.  S.,  Roches- 
ter, N.  Y 10  00 

McClellan,   Mrs.  M.  C,   Hart- 
ford, Conn 30  00 

McCreery,    Mrj.    Hannah    M., 

New  York    25  00 

McCormick,  Jr  ,  Cyrus  H.,  Chi- 
cago. Ill 112  50 

Morgan  J.  Pierpont,  New  York.  100  00 
Merriman,    Rev.   Daniel,  Wor- 
cester, Mass 30  00 

Morrell,  C.  J.,  Boston 30  00 

McWilliams,  D.  W.,  Brooklvn  113  50 
McClure,   Mrs.    Wm.    H.,    Al- 

banv.  N.  Y 100  00 

Marvin,  "S.  S.,  Pittsburg,  Pa  . .  30  00 

McWilliams.  John,  New  York  .  30  00 


McCollom,   John   H.,   Oswego, 

N.  Y $10  00 

Milne,  A.,  New  York 10  00 

Merrill,    Wiilard,     Milwaukee, 

Wis 30  00 

McManus,   Chas.  V.,  Philadel- 
phia    30  00 

Miller,      E.     Rothesay    (Rev.), 

Tokio,  Japan 10  00 

Mackintosh,  W,   S.,   Pittsburg, 

Pa 30  00 

McCook,  John  I.,  New  York..  30  00 

Moen,  P.  L.,  Worcester,  Mass.  .  42  50 

Munn,  Mrs.  0.  D.,  New  York.  25  00 

Magie,  Wm.  E.,  New  York 30  00 

McPherson,  John  B.,  Lebanon, 

Pa 20  00 

McAuslan,    John,    Providence, 

R.  1 125  00 

Miller,  Daniel,   Baltimore 42  50 

Mackellar,  Thos.,  Philadelphia.  10  00 

Norcross,  Otis,  Boston,  Mass  . .  10  CO 

Negley.  W.  B.,  Pittsburg,  Pa. .  25  00 

Niles,  Lucian  H.,  New  York  . .  43  50 

Owen,  T.  L.,  Pittsburg,  Pa 30  00 

Olmstead,    Theo.    F.,   Geneseo, 

N.  Y    30  00 

Orrock  J.  M.  (Rev.).  Boston  ...  30  00 

Peabody,  George  F.,  Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 20  00 

Purvis  W.,  Philadelphia 10  00 

Perris,  Wm.  G.,  New  York. ...  20  00 
Powers,  Wm.  P.,  New  York.  . .  10  00 
Phares,  D.  L.,  Agricultural  Col- 
lege, Mississippi 10  00 

Patton,    W.  W.   (Rev.),  Wash- 
ington,   I).  C 25  00 

Potwin,  W.  S.,  Chicago,  111...  25  00 

Potter,  Sarah C,  Kingston,  R.I.  25  00 

Pruyn,  J.  V.  L.,  Albany,  N.  Y.  30  00 

Pratt,  L.,  Hartford,  Conn 42  50 

Peirce,  Harold.  Bristol,  Pa  ... .  43  50 
Phelps,  S.  Drvden  (Rev.),  Hart- 
ford. Conn 20  00 

Parker,  Knnsoni,   New  York...  25  00 

Palm.er,  Wm.  B.,  Olivet,  Mich.  30  00 

Pearse  &  Co.,  A.  P.,  New  York  60  00 

Perkins,  Joseph,  Cleveland.  0.  25  00 

Pennock,  Geo.,  Phihidelrihia  ..  10  00 

Parsons,  John  E..  New  York. .  30  00 

Raven,  A.  A.,  New  York 10  00 

Rhoads,  J  as.  E.,  Germantown, 

Pa 25  00 

Reybm-n,  Mrs.  and  Miss  Small, 

Baltimore 30  00 

Ripley,  George,  Andover,  Mass.  30  00 
Richards,  Mark  H.,  Pottstown, 

Pa 30  00 

Rice,  Joseph  A..  Bethlehem,  Pa.  10  00 

Rockwell,  James,  Utica,  N.  Y.  30  00 

Ropes,  John  C,  Boston,  Mass. .  10  00 


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Rollins,  E.  A.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa 

Raymond,  R.  W.,  Brooklyn,  N, 
Y 

Ropes,  J.  S.,  Boston,  Mass 

Sinclair,  John,  New  York 

Selleck,  A.  D.,  New  York 

Shearman,  Thos.  G.,  Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 

Stewart,  John  A.,  New  York. . 
Sheoard,   Sidney,  New  Haven, 

N.  Y 

Sloan,  Sam'l,  New  York 

Scattergood,  Thos. ,  Philadel- 
phia, Pa 

Stokes,     Anson     Phelps,    New 

York 

Schieflfelin,  H.  M.,  New  York.. 
Sinclair,  Mrs.   Thos.  M.,  Cedar 

Rapids,    Iowa 

Stewart,  John,  Richmond,  Va. 
Sparks,    Mary  C,    Cambridge, 

Mass 

Shepard,  Elliott  P.,  New  York. 
Stuart,  Geo.  II.,  Philadelphia  . 
Slade,  Fred.  J.,  Trenton,  N.  J. 
SchieffeJin,     Sam'l     B.,     New 

York 

Sturges,  Susan  M.,  Mansfield, 0. 
Sherrard,      Thos.     J.,      Honey 

Brook,  Pa 

Sterry,  Geo.  E.,  New  York  .... 
Sumner,  Sarah  P.,  Albany,  N. 

Y 

Slover,    Warren    G.     F.,    New 

York 

Scull,  S.  M.,  Philadelphia 

Scull,  Jr.,  D.,  Pliiladelphia 

Sloan,  Wm.  S.,  New  York 

Starr.    Mrs.    Sarah    M.,    New 

York   

Savage,  Sarah  Chauncey,  Phil- 
adelphia    

Stearns,    Isaac    C,    Zumbrota, 

Minn 

Sabine,  G.  A..  New  York 

Shiells.  Robert,  Neenah,  Wis.. 
Stettinins,  J.  L.,  Cincinnati,  O. 
Stone,  Sumner  R..  New   York. 

Sloane,  W.  &  J.,  New  York 

Schwab,  Gustav,  New  York  .  . . 
Stewart,      Bryee.      Clarksville, 

Tenn 

Turner,  J.  Spencer,  New  York. 

Tew,  Willis,  Jamestown,  N.  Y. 

Taber,  Wm.  C,  New  Bedford, 

Mass 


120  00 

87  50 
30  00 

10  00 
10  00 

10  00 
30  00 

10  00 
100  00 

10  00 

30  00 
10  00 

53  50 
30  00 

5  00 
25  00 
25  00 
25  09 

10  00 
30  00 

25  00 
25  00 

10  00 


30  00 

25  00 

10  CO 

80  00 

10  00 

30  00 

30  CO 

30  00 

30  00 

30  00 

10  00 

46  86 

10  00 

20  00 

13  50 

10  00 

10  00 

Tracy,  J.  E.,  New  York $10  00 

Terry,  Steplien,  Hartford,Conn.  10  00 

Thomas.  George,  Whitford,  Pa.  10  00 

Tal't,  James  II.,  New  York 10  00 

Tiffany,  C.  C.  (Rev  ),  New  York.  30  00 

Tatham,  Benj.,  New  York 30  CO 

Trask,   Alanson,    Brooklyn,   N. 

Y 25  00 

Terry,    Itoderick  (Rev.),    New 

York 10  00 

Thompson,  F.  F.,  New  York  . .  150  00 
Thorne,  Miss  Phebe  Anna,  New 

York 150  00 

Thompson,     John    B.     (Rev.), 

Berkely,  Cal 10  00 

Taylor,  Allred  J.,  New  York.  .  30  00 
Thomas,  Edward  Isaiah,  Brook- 
line,  Mass 30  00 

Vail,  C.  E.,  Blairstown,  N.  J. .  10  00 

Vanderbilt,  C,  New  York 10  00 

Vaux,  George,  Bryn  IMawr,  Pa.  10  CO 
Vincent,    J,    II.    (Rev.),    New 

York 30  00 

Van     Norden,     W^arner,    New 

York 43  50 

Vanderbilt,  Geo.  W.,  New  York.  30  00 

Williams,  Mrs.  J   J.,  Brooklyn, 

N.  Y 42  50 

Winthrop,  R.  C,  Boston 10  00 

Winthrop,    Mrs.    H.    R.,    New 

York 10  00 

Williams,  Thos.  C,  Richmond, 

Va 10  00 

Wood,  Walter,  Philadelphia  . .  105  00 

Warren,  Mrs.  S.  D.,  Boston.  ..  10  CO 
Williams,  Edward  C.,  Oakland, 

Cal 30  00 

Winston,  F.  S.,  New  York 30  00 

Wilson,   Jas.    P.   (Rev.),    New 

Yoik 25  00 

W'hitall,  Jas.,  Germantown,  Pa.  10  00 

Wallace,  Jas.  P.,  Brooklvn 80  00 

Waller,  Julia,  Bloomsburg,  Pa.  25  00 
Wright,   John  W.,  Camden,  N. 

J 10  00 

Whceiock,  Mrs.  Alice  S 43  50 

White   Francis,  Baltimore 30  00 

V/ood,  C  D.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.  30  00 
Waloott,  B.  S.,  New  York  ....  42  50 
Williams,  W.  W.  (Rev.),  Balti- 
more    30  00 

Williams,    Mrs.  J.   B.,    Ithaca, 

N.  Y 25  00 

Whitney,  W.  B.,  Germantown, 

Pa    10  00 

Walker,     Geo.     L.,     Hartford, 

Conn 2000 


Date  Due 


